PT-2007-2206 · Cotv · Chicken Of The Vnc

Poplix · Published 2007-02-06 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-0756

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Chicken of the VNC (cotv) version 2.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved by sending a ServerInit packet with a large computer-name size value, which triggers a failed malloc and a resulting NULL dereference.

Recommendations For Chicken of the VNC (cotv) version 2.0, consider restricting access to the ServerInit packet to minimize the risk of exploitation until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-0756

Affected Products

Chicken Of The Vnc

References · 8

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/22372 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/3257 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-0756 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32166 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/33637 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2220 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded · Note