DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6949

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2017-6949

    Published: 16 Mar 2017Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-6949

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-6949

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chicken

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/chicken?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.12.0-0.2

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High