CVE-2007-0756

Chicken Of The Vnc vulnerability

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

4.3%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Chicken Of The Vnc

Affected product

Chicken Of The Vnc

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Published

2007-02-06

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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