CVE-2017-6949

Summary

CVECVE-2017-6949
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-16 17:59:00 UTC
Updated2017-04-05 01:59:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Call-cc Chicken 4.12.0 All All All
Application Call-cc Chicken 4.12.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] Unchecked malloc size in "external" SRFI-4 CONFIRM lists.gnu.org Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
CHICKEN CVE-2017-6949 Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501182 Alpine Linux Security Update for chicken
  • 504600 Alpine Linux Security Update for chicken
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