| Name | CVE-2014-8241 |
| 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. |
| 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 | 849478 |
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 | 1.13.1+dfsg-3 | 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) | 1.7.0-2 | | | 849478 |
Notes
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
Patch applied in Red Hat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=946490