Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0756 - Remote Denial of Service vulnerability in Chicken of the VNC Chicken of the VNC 2.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Chicken of the VNC 2.0 (NULL-pointer) Remote Denial of Service Exploit. CVE-2007-0756. Dos exploit for osx platform |
| file | exploits/osx/dos/3257.php |
| id | EDB-ID:3257 |
| last seen | 2016-01-31 |
| modified | 2007-02-02 |
| platform | osx |
| port | |
| published | 2007-02-02 |
| reporter | poplix |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/3257/ |
| title | Chicken of the VNC 2.0 NULL-pointer Remote Denial of Service Exploit |
| type | dos |
References
- http://osvdb.org/33637
- 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