vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2016-6830): chicken vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jan 10, 2017 | Nov 19, 2024 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 10, 2017
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
Solution
ubuntu-upgrade-chicken
References
- CVE-2016-6830
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2016-6830
- CWE-119
- EUVD-EUVD-2016-7715
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/18/2
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-7715
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6830
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