CVE-2017-6949

High

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.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.1
Exploit probability—
ProductCall-cc Chicken
PublishedMar 16, 2017
First seenMar 16, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
call-cc chicken4.12.0—

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