CVE-2014-8241

NameCVE-2014-8241
DescriptionXRegion 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs849478

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tigervnc (PTS)stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch1.7.0+dfsg-7+deb9u2fixed
buster1.9.0+dfsg-3+deb10u3fixed
bullseye1.11.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1fixed
bookworm1.12.0+dfsg-8fixed
sid, trixie1.14.1+dfsg-1fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tigervncsource(unstable)1.7.0-2849478

Notes

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
Patch applied in Red Hat https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=946490

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