CVE-2012-6123

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.0-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.0-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.0-1
debian debiansidfixed4.8.0-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.0-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.