CVE-2007-0756

high

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.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3257

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32166

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2220

http://osvdb.org/33637

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-02-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H