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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…
High7.8EPSS 4.4%
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- Updated
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.4% · top 8.6% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- 22372 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20070202 Chicken of the VNC 2.0 remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 3257 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 2220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20070426 Re: Chicken of the VNC 2.0 remote DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 33637 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- cotv-serverinit-dos(32166) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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