Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8154

Title: Gnome Vala RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8154.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jan 27, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8154: The Gst.MapInfo function in Vala 0.26.0 and 0.26.1 uses an incorrect buffer length declaration for the Gstreamer bindings, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, which trigger a heap-based buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

G
gnome 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00069.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177840 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181404 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-01/msg00069.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1177840 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181404
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8154 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.