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 <[email protected]>
---
 meta-oe/recipes-graphics/tigervnc/tigervnc_1.11.0.bb | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

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 5cde7c9fb4..699c0ed74f 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 +131,6 @@ FILES:${PN} += " \
 "
 
 FILES:${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/xorg/modules/extensions/.debug"
+
+# fixed-version: The vulnerable code is not present in the used version 
(1.11.0)
+CVE_CHECK_IGNORE += "CVE-2014-8241"
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