FKIE_CVE-2014-8240
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-10-16 19:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:16
Severity
Summary
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
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