Source: tigervnc Version: 1.6.0+dfsg-4 Severity: grave Tags: security upstream patch Justification: user security hole
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for tigervnc. CVE-2014-8241[0]: | 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. The Red Hat bug[1] contains details and a patch[2]. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8241 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8241 [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=946490 Regards, Salvatore
