Vulnerability CVE-2007-0756
Published: 2007-02-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Chicken of the VNC (cotv) 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a large computer-name size value in a ServerInit packet, which triggers a failed malloc and a resulting NULL dereference.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Chicken of the VNC 2.0 remote DoS
poplix
07.02.2007

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.8/10
6.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Chicken of the vnc -> Chicken of the vnc 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2220
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22372
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32166
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3257
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