CVE-2007-0756 Information

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.

Reference

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