CVE-2012-6122

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.

• CWE-120

• 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

Published

Oct 31, 2019

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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