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CVE-2016-6830 Details

Description

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).

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html CVEPatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550 CVEThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html [email protected]PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550 [email protected]Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
call-cc chicken
<= 4.11.0

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

5 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2016-6830
NVD Published Date:
Jan 10, 2017
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]