Chicken before 4.8.0 is susceptible to algorithmic complexity attacks related to hash table collisions.
Vendor
chicken vulnerabilities
6 published CVES affecting chicken, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 6
- Critical
- 1
- High
- 3
- Medium
- 2
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Products
Latest chicken CVEs
Newest publication first
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CriticalCVSS 9.8 EPSS 1.8%
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MediumCVSS 5.3 EPSS 1.3%
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)."
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MediumCVSS 6.5 EPSS 1.3%
Chicken before 4.8.0 does not properly handle NUL bytes in certain strings, which allows an attacker to conduct "poisoned NUL byte attack."
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HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 2.3%
Buffer overflow in the thread scheduler in Chicken before 4.8.0.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by opening a file descriptor with a large integer value.
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HighCVSS 8.8 EPSS 2.2%
Multiple buffer overflows in the (1) R5RS char-ready, (2) tcp-accept-ready, and (3) file-select procedures in Chicken through 4.8.0.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by opening a file descriptor with a large integer value. NOTE: this issue exists because of...
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HighCVSS 8.8 EPSS 4.6%
OS command injection vulnerability in the "qs" procedure from the "utils" module in Chicken before 4.9.0.
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.