PT-2014-8436 · Tigervnc+4 · Tigervnc+4

Published 2014-10-16 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2014-8240

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions TigerVNC (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to an integer overflow in TigerVNC, which can be triggered by remote VNC servers through vectors related to screen size handling. This can cause a denial of service (crash) and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code via a heap-based buffer overflow.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1777

CESA-2015_2233

CVE-2014-8240

MGASA-2015-0459

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10056-1

RHSA-2015:2233

RHSA-2015_2233

SUSE-SU-2014_1592-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Red Hat

Suse

Tigervnc

References · 38

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0459.html · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8240 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8241 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2233.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8240 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2015-1777 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0011 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10056-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-November/008844.html · Note
• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-cr-announce/2015-November/015534.html · Note