vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2014-8241: tigervnc -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 14, 2016
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-tigervnc
Title
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