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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22372 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458907/100/0/threaded ↗
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3257 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2220 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466966/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://osvdb.org/33637 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32166 ↗