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CVE-2014-8241

tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion

Published Modified CWE 476
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Oracle (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1tigervnc, tigervnc-debuginfo, tigervnc-server and 1 more1.3.1-3.31.amzn1
debian 11tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 12tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 13tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 14tigervnc1.7.0-2
echotigervnc1.7.0-2
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc, tigervnc-icons, tigervnc-license and 4 more1.3.1-3.el7
Red Hattigervnc, tigervnc-server, tigervnc-server-applet and 1 moreno fix listed
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1tigervnc1.3.1-3.31.amzn1
amazon linux 1tigervnc-debuginfo1.3.1-3.31.amzn1
amazon linux 1tigervnc-server1.3.1-3.31.amzn1
amazon linux 1tigervnc-server-module1.3.1-3.31.amzn1
debian 11tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 12tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 13tigervnc1.7.0-2
debian 14tigervnc1.7.0-2
echotigervnc1.7.0-2
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-icons1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-license1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-server1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-server-applet1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-server-minimal1.3.1-3.el7
Oracle Linux 7tigervnc-server-module1.3.1-3.el7
Red Hattigervncno fix listed
Red Hattigervnc-serverno fix listed
Red Hattigervnc-server-appletno fix listed
Red Hattigervnc-server-moduleno fix listed

References

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