CVE-2012-6122 (GCVE-0-2012-6122)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-31 20:38 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:28
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
8 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announc… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-use… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hac… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
Date Public
2012-06-11 00:00
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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