Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU41020

Input validation error in Oracle products - CVE-2014-8094

Published: December 10, 2014 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU41020

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8094

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted request, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.

Affected software

Debian Linux
Oracle Solaris
xorg-server

How to mitigate CVE-2014-8094

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.

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