CVE-2014-8241

CVE Details

Release Date:2014-10-10
Impact:Moderate What is this?

Description


XRegion in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial ofservice (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6052.

See more information about CVE-2014-8241 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.


CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score: 6.8
Vector String: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Version: 2.0
Attack Vector: Network
Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None
Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial
Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (tigervnc)ELSA-2015-22332015-11-24


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