vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6949: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Mar 16, 2017 | Aug 22, 2024 | Aug 8, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 16, 2017
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Aug 8, 2025
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-chicken
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