CVE-2014-8240
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.5% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8081)
- Published
- October 16, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8081 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- tigervnc / tigervnc
- tigervnc / tigervnc
- tigervnc / tigervnc
- tigervnc / tigervnc
- tigervnc / tigervnc
References
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/278
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/300
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70391
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/96947
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-36
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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