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."
Affected products
- chicken / chickenbefore 4.8.0 – before 4.8.0
References
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6123
- VENDOR_ADVISORYhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-6123
- MAILING_LISThttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2