High severity · published Mar 16, 2017
CVE-2017-6949
An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0
8.1
CVSS
1.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.5% · higher than 74% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Chicken · Call-cc
4.12.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6949
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6949
Mailing List
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html
www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317
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