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CVE-2017-6949
HIGH · CVSS 8.1
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-16T17:59:00.157 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:23:21.700

Summary

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.

Affected products

call-cc — chicken

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References

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