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.
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-908-1 chicken security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-15989 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T15:49:02.870Z

Reserved: 2017-03-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-6949

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-16T17:59:00.157

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6949

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