VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-8241

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability3.06%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2016-12-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references