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CVE-2017-6949
CVE-2017-6949
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.22% · 44.7th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.22%
44.7th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | chicken | 0, 4.9.0.1-1 |
Timeline
- Mar 16, 2017 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 22, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 27, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 2, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6949 third-party-advisory
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6949 third-party-advisory