CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6123
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."
Affected configurations
• call-cc chicken (< 4.8.0)
• debian debian linux 8.0
• debian debian linux 9.0
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123 Broken Link
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123 Broken Link
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123 Third Party Advisory