# CVE-2007-0756: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2007-02-06 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22372
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3257
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2220
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded
- http://osvdb.org/33637
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32166

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