CVE-2012-6122

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-6122
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-10-31T21:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-11-05T16:30:59
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-120 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/120.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.8.0.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.1
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.html Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122 Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html Mailing List Patch Release Notes Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122 Broken Link
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6122
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6122
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:00:15 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 05:17:08 2019-10-31T21:15Z 2019-10-31T21:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 05:17:08 2019-11-05T16:30:59 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 05:17:08 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated