CVE-2012-6124

medium

Description

A casting error in Chicken before 4.8.0 on 64-bit platform caused the random number generator to return a constant value. NOTE: the vendor states "This function wasn't used for security purposes (and is advertised as being unsuitable)."

References

Advisories

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6124

https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2012-02/msg00084.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-31

Updated: 2019-11-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N