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CVE-2017-6949

Published: 16 March 2017

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.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
chicken
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Ignored
(end of life)
bionic Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
disco Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
eoan Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
focal Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
groovy Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
hirsute Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
impish Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
jammy Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
kinetic Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
lunar Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
mantic Not vulnerable
(4.12.0-0.3)
precise Ignored
(end of life)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream
Released (4.12.0-0.2)
xenial Needed

yakkety Ignored
(end of life)
zesty Ignored
(end of life)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.1
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H