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CVE-2016-6830

N/A
Published: January 10, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorChicken

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Chicken· Call Cc
95%
v ≤ 4.11.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (2)

Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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