CVE-2012-6122

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-120

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
chicken	chicken	4.8.0.1

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122Broken Link
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122Third Party Advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Patch, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122Broken Link
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 31, 2019
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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