CVE-2017-6949

Published Mar 16, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 8.1 High EPSS 1.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0. When using a nonstandard CHICKEN-specific extension to allocate an SRFI-4 vector in unmanaged memory, the vector size would be used in unsanitised form as an argument to malloc(). With an unexpected size, the impact may have been a segfault or buffer overflow.

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-908-1 chicken security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15989 An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0. When using a nonstandard CHICKEN-specific extension to allocate an SRFI-4 vector in unmanaged memory, the vector size would be used in unsanitised form as an argument to malloc(). With an unexpected size, the impact may have been a segfault or buffer overflow.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 3:49 PM
Reserved
Mar 16, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 16, 2017, 5:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:23 AM