VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2012-6125
Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.76%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.76%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.76% probability · 77th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- call-cc/chicken
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6125Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6125Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6125Broken Link
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6125Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.