CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9334

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-06-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.

Affected configurations

• call-cc chicken (<= 4.12.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References