CVE-2007-0756 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Chicken of the VNC (cotv) version 2.0. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the application by sending a ServerInit packet with an excessively large computer-name size value, leading to a failed memory allocation and a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact on availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:chicken_of_the_vnc:chicken_of_the_vnc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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