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CVE-2016-6830
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-10T15:59:00.457 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:51:51.133

Summary

The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).

Affected products

call-cc — chicken

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References

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