CVE-2014-8241
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8241
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2014-8241.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2014-8241
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-14T22:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html