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CVE-2014-8241

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-12-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• Kaspersky TigerVNC: all versions

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
• 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
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70390

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