CVE-2017-6949

Published: Mar 16, 2017Modified: May 13, 2026

8.1

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.2 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Call Cc: Chicken

1 product

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Call Cc Chicken	Version 4.12.0

Related CWEs

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (4)

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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