Bug 1151312 (CVE-2014-8241)

Summary: CVE-2014-8241 tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: bphinz, carnil, jrusnack, twaugh
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in TigerVNC's XRegion. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.
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Last Closed: 2015-11-20 05:29:56 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 1248422    
Bug Blocks: 1210268, 1248061    
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tigervnc-CVE-2014-8241.patch (proposed RHEL-7.1 patch) none

Description Siddharth Sharma 2014-10-10 05:48:30 UTC 
This issue was discovered by Tim Waugh of Red Hat. Tigervnc is affected by same thing as in CVE-2014-6052. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was reported in tigervnc. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2014-10-13 16:59:54 UTC 
Created attachment 946490 [details]
tigervnc-CVE-2014-8241.patch (proposed RHEL-7.1 patch)
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-19 09:03:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:2233 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2233.html
Comment 10 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-11-20 05:29:56 UTC 
Statement:

This issue affects the version of tigervnc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Comment 11 Salvatore Bonaccorso 2016-10-16 11:35:21 UTC 
Hi Tim

Would it be possible to make the patch as applied in Red Hat public?

Regards,
Salvatore