Bug 1151312 (CVE-2014-8241) - CVE-2014-8241 tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion
Summary: CVE-2014-8241 tigervnc: NULL pointer dereference flaw in XRegion
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-8241
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1248422
Blocks: 1210268 1248061
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Reported: 2014-10-10 05:48 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:07 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-20 05:29:56 UTC
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)
tigervnc-CVE-2014-8241.patch (proposed RHEL-7.1 patch) (4.00 KB, patch)
2014-10-13 16:59 UTC, Tim Waugh 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2233 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: tigervnc security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2015-11-19 09:11:46 UTC

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
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