Critical severity · published Dec 14, 2016
CVE-2014-8241
XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to…
9.8
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6052.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Enterprise Linux Desktop · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Hpc Node · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Workstation · Redhat
7.0 · source: NVD
TI
Tigervnc · Tigervnc
All versions, or not specified · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8241
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8241
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
Mailing List
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
www.oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
www.oracle.com
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
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