CVE-2014-8241
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.37%
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.
How to fix CVE-2014-8241
To remediate CVE-2014-8241, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/tigervnc—upgrade to 1.7.0-2 or later
Is CVE-2014-8241 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1.7.0-2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |