Out-of-Bounds Affecting chicken package, versions <4.12.0-0.2
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-CHICKEN-1542802
- published16 Mar 2017
- disclosed16 Mar 2017
Introduced: 16 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-6949 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 chicken to version 4.12.0-0.2 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.
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.