debian · CVE-2012-6124

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:00:04 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-6124 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (chicken), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

Description:

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)."

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