Debian/chicken: medium 6.5

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

Action: Upgrade chicken to 4.8.0-1 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6123#Debian:14/chicken
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123

published 2019-10-31T21:15:11.857Z · modified 2026-10-23T18:02:54.643614458Z · JSON