vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-6949: chicken -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 16, 2017
Added
Apr 23, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-chicken
Title
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