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CVE-2012-6123

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Date: October 31, 2019

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

Language: SCHEME

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (6)

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6123

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-6123

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-6123

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version v4.8.0

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	NONE
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