CVE-2007-0756 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2007-02-06

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: 10.3% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:chicken_of_the_vnc:chicken_of_the_vnc:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.10326.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

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Chicken Of The Vnc Chicken Of The Vnc

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-02-06T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:26:54.434Z

Reserved: 2007-02-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-0756

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-02-06T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-0756

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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