An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18269 An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:44.325Z

Reserved: 2017-05-31T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9334

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-01T05:29:00.233

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

Link: CVE-2017-9334

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