Out-of-Bounds Affecting chicken package, versions <4.9.0-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.94% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-CHICKEN-1542627
  • published20 May 2014
  • disclosed20 May 2014

Introduced: 20 May 2014

CVE-2014-3776  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 chicken to version 4.9.0-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chicken package and not the chicken package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.

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