CVE-2007-0756 EXPLOIT
7.8
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 4.4% (pctl 91)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| EPSS | 4.43% — more likely to be exploited than 91% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-02-06 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| chicken of the vnc | chicken of the vnc |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Chicken of the VNC 2.0 - 'NULL-pointer' Remote Denial of Service | 2007-02-02 |
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
- 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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