CVE-2012-6125

CRITICAL

Chicken < 4.8.0 - Denial of Service via Hash Table Collision

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6125
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00002.html
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-01/msg00020.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0176
EPSS Percentile 75.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
call-cc/chicken < 4.8.0
Published Oct 31, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026