PT-2016-3499 · Tigervnc+2 · Tigervnc+2

Published 2015-11-19 · Updated 2016-12-20 · CVE-2014-8241

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service by leveraging failure to check a malloc return value, which can lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This is similar to a previously identified issue.

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

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CESA-2015_2233

CVE-2014-8241

MGASA-2015-0459

RHSA-2015:2233

RHSA-2015_2233

Affected Products

Centos

Red Hat

Tigervnc

References · 24

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0459 · Vendor Advisory
• https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0459.html · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8241 · Security Note
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2233.html · Vendor Advisory
• 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8241 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17190 · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8240 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2233 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/70390 · Note