CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6122
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
Buffer overflow in the thread scheduler in Chicken before 4.8.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by opening a file descriptor with a large integer value.
Affected configurations
• call-cc chicken (< 4.8.0.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122 Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html Mailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122 Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122 Third Party Advisory