CVE-2017-6949
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.22%chicken - security update
Published: 3/16/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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 packages (2)
- Debian/chickenfrom 0, < 4.12.0-0.2
- Debian/chickenfrom 0, < 4.7.0-1+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |