vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-11343: chicken -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Jul 17, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6125, all versions of CHICKEN Scheme up to and including 4.12.0 are vulnerable to an algorithmic complexity attack. An attacker can provide crafted input which, when inserted into the symbol table, will result in O(n) lookup time.

Solution

debian-upgrade-chicken
Title
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