CVE-2014-8240

Description

Integer overflow in TigerVNC allows remote VNC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to screen size handling, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a similar issue to CVE-2014-6051.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96947

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70391

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3