Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2014-8240 First vendor Publication 2014-10-16
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2017-09-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

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.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8240

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28676
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:28676
Title: SUSE-SU-2014:1592-1 -- Security update for tigervnc (moderate)
Description: This update for tigervnc provides the following fixes: - Fixed integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in screen size handling. (CVE-2014-8240) - Send correctly keys that don't type any characters, such as CTRL+Space. (bnc#906922)
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): SUSE-SU-2014:1592-1
CVE-2014-8240
Version: 3
Platform(s): SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
Product(s): tigervnc
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-12-13 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-36.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-22 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : sl_20151119_tigervnc_on_SL7_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-15 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-623.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-02 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.
File : centos_RHSA-2015-2233.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-30 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-2233.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2015-2233.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-05-20 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2014-1592-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70391
CONFIRM http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-271964...
GENTOO https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36
MISC https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307
MLIST http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96947

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2021-05-04 12:34:53
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2017-09-08 09:23:12
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2016-12-14 13:26:32
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2016-10-18 12:04:06
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2016-10-15 09:24:39
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2015-12-23 13:25:39
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2015-12-16 13:26:15
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2015-12-03 13:26:24
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2015-12-01 13:26:13
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2015-11-21 13:25:40
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2015-05-21 13:31:48
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2014-10-22 00:25:54
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2014-10-17 00:23:44
  • First insertion