Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

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."

  • Published: Oct 31, 2019
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2012-6123
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
call-cc / chicken - 4.8.0
debian / debian_linux 8.0 8.0.x
debian / debian_linux 9.0 9.0.x
debian / debian_linux 10.0 10.0.x