CVE-2014-8241 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8