CVE-2017-6949

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 8.1 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-03-16

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Chicken (Call-cc)

References

• http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317