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CVE-2007-07561 exploit

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…

Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.8
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
4.5%
percentile 91%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

4.46% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-3257 Chicken of the VNC 2.0 - 'NULL-pointer' Remote Denial of Service · dos · 2007-02-02

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.07.8AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/22372 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • exploit-db.com /exploits/3257 · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
  • securityreason.com /securityalert/2220 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded · mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, x_transferred
  • osvdb.org /33637 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB, x_transferred
  • exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/32166 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF, x_transferred

Sources

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