CVE-2014-8241: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only
• Tigervnc Tigervnc: affected versions not specified

Published 2016-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.