ubuntu · CVE-2012-6123

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Priority: medium Published: 2019-10-31 21:15:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 20:41:03 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2012-6123 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (chicken), 15 status rows across 15 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 5, DNE 1, released 1.

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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