CVE-2012-6124: Call-Cc Chicken

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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)."

Affected products

• Call-Cc Chicken: before 4.8.0 (fixed in 4.8.0)

Published 2019-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.