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Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 31, 2019· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2012-6123

CVE-2012-6123

Description

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

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Affected products

6

Call Cc/Chicken
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <4.8.0
Debian/linux3 versions
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CHICKEN/CHICKENllm-fuzzy
Range: <4.8.0
chicken/chickenv5
Range: before 4.8.0

Patches

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References

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www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123nvdThird Party Advisory
access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123nvdBroken Link

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