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FKIE_CVE-2012-6124

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2019-10-31 21:15 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:47

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Summary

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)."

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124	Broken Link
secalert@redhat.com	https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124	Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124	Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html	Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124	Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	call-cc	chicken	*

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CVE-2012-6124 (GCVE-0-2012-6124)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-10-31 20:38 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:28

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Type-Check

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2	x_refsource_MISC
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2…	x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6124	x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hac…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
chicken	chicken	Affected: before 4.8.0

Date Public

2012-02-29 00:00

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