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Debian: CVE-2012-6123: chicken -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Oct 31, 2019
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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."

Solution

debian-upgrade-chicken
Title
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