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Chicken of the VNC is a very popular VNC Client for MAC OS X, which allows you to connect to remote computers. SecuriTeam is reporting that Chicken of the VNC 2.0 is prone to a remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability because it fails to validate the content of ServerInit packets. They’ve more details on the vulnerability and proof of concept.