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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6949: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-6949: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/16/2017
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

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(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-chicken

References

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