CVE Catalog
CVE-2014-8241
CriticalSummary
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.
Risk Assessment
The organization may experience service outages in VNC, leading to disruptions in operations and potential data loss.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update TigerVNC to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor logs for potential attack attempts.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.