CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-3776
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-05-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.
Affected configurations
• call-cc chicken (<= 4.9.0)
• call-cc chicken 4.8.0.7
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e code.call-cc.org
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html lists.gnu.org
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html lists.gnu.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/334 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67468 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1124 bugs.call-cc.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54 security.gentoo.org
- http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e code.call-cc.org
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html lists.gnu.org
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html lists.gnu.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/334 seclists.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67468 www.securityfocus.com
- https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1124 bugs.call-cc.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54 security.gentoo.org