CVE-2017-6949
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2017-6949 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2017-03-16 17:59:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2017-04-05 01:59:00 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-119
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| [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 |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.