CVE-2014-8241 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2014-8241

XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

tigervnc, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux hpc node, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 14th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.