CVE-2014-8240

Name	CVE-2014-8240
Description	Integer overflow in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to screen size handling, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6051.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	849479

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
tigervnc (PTS)	stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch	1.7.0+dfsg-7+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	1.9.0+dfsg-3+deb10u3	fixed
	bullseye	1.11.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1	fixed
	bookworm	1.12.0+dfsg-8	fixed
	sid, trixie	1.14.1+dfsg-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
tigervnc	source	(unstable)	1.7.0-1			849479

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307
Patch https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=947578 is not applied