CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-6124
5.3 MEDIUM
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-10-31
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-338
Description
A casting error in Chicken before 4.8.0 on 64-bit platform caused the random number generator to return a constant value. NOTE: the vendor states "This function wasn't used for security purposes (and is advertised as being unsuitable)."
Affected configurations
• call-cc chicken (< 4.8.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-338 Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124 Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124 Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124 Third Party Advisory