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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2016-12-14T22:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T13:10:51.088Z

Reserved: 2014-10-11T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-8241

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2016-12-14T22:59:00.200

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2014-8241

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-10-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-8241 - Bugzilla