{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-10-10T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "tigervnc: integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in screen size handling",
    "id" : "1151307",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "6.8",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-190->CWE-122",
  "details" : [ "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.", "An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the way TigerVNC handled screen sizes. A malicious VNC server could use this flaw to cause a client to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code on the client." ],
  "statement" : "This issue affects the version of tigervnc as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-11-19T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:2233",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "tigervnc-0:1.3.1-3.el7"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "vnc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "tigervnc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8240\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8240" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-8240",
  "csaw" : false
}