CVE-2012-6122 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/08/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/05/09/1 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6122 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-11/msg00075.html https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2012-06/msg00031.html https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6122

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5