debian · CVE-2012-6123

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:46:17 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-6123 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (chicken), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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."

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