High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Mar 16, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-6949
CVE-2017-6949
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.
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References
2- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.htmlnvdMailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317nvd
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