CVE-2017-6949

HighCVSS 8.1/10Last modified Jun 17, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.1/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317

Timeline

Published: Mar 16, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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