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NVD Vulnerability Details :

CVE-2017-6949

Deferred

Source-cve@mitre.org

Published At-16 Mar, 2017 | 17:59

Updated At-20 Apr, 2025 | 01:37

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.

Date Added	Due Date	Vulnerability Name	Required Action
	N/A

Metrics

Type	Version	Base score	Base severity	Vector
Primary	3.0	8.1	HIGH	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Primary	2.0	6.8	MEDIUM	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CPE Matches

call-cc>>chicken>>4.12.0

cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Weaknesses

CWE ID	Type	Source
CWE-119	Primary	nvd@nist.gov

References

Hyperlink	Source	Resource
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html	cve@mitre.org	Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317	cve@mitre.org	N/A
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	N/A

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