CVE-2012-6122
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2019-10-31
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Affected products
References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.html
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122
