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[meta-oe,scarthgap,RFC,02/14] tigervnc: ignore CVE-2014-8241

Message ID 20260127130116.1902238-3-skandigraun@gmail.com
State New
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Series TigerVNC CVEs | expand

Commit Message

Gyorgy Sarvari Jan. 27, 2026, 1:01 p.m. UTC 
Details: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8241

The vulnerability is about a potential null-pointer dereference, because
of a malloc result is not verified[1].

The vulnerable code has been refactored since completely[2], and the code isn't
present anymore in the codebase.

[1]: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/issues/993#issuecomment-612874972 - attachment
[2]: https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/commit/b8a24f055f1a29886d8b18bb3f0902144dc5bd14

Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>
(cherry picked from commit ed8a1038d227ee521cf2349d9f7f8e37eec6a64a)

Fixed typo in CVE ID.

Signed-off-by: Gyorgy Sarvari <skandigraun@gmail.com>
---
 meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
index e3e2b6ee16..fa0661dffe 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb
@@ -131,3 +131,5 @@  FILES:${PN} += " \
 "
 
 FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/xorg/modules/extensions/.debug"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2014-8241] = "fixed-version: The vulnerable code is not present in the used version (1.11.0)"