CVE-2012-6123

Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-10-31

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Chicken (Call-cc)
• Chicken (Chicken)
• Debian Linux (Debian)

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123