CVE-2014-3776
N/A
Published: May 20, 2014 at 02:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:08 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorChicken
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%
Description
Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (8)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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