CVE-2012-6124

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 Medium 5.3
Description
A casting error in Chicken before 4.8.0 on 64-bit platform caused the random number generator to return a constant value. NOTE: the vendor states "This function wasn't used for security purposes (and is advertised as being unsuitable)."
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-6124
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-10-31T21:15:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-11-06T15:42:08
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-338 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/338.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:x64:* 1 OR 4.8.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • 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:L/A:N
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 5.3
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 1.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124 Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124 Broken Link
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6124
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6124
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:00:05 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-04 05:17:16 2019-10-31T21:15Z 2019-10-31T21:15:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-04 05:17:17 2019-11-06T15:42:08 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-04 05:17:17 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated