CVE-2017-6949
CVSS V2 Medium 6.8
CVSS V3 High 8.1
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.
Overview
- CVE ID
- CVE-2017-6949
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
- Vulnerability Status
- Modified
- Published Version
- 2017-03-16T17:59:00
- Last Modified Date
- 2017-04-05T01:59:01
Weakness Enumerations
CPE Configuration (Product)
| CPE | Vulnerable | Operator | Version Start | Version End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1 | OR |
CVSS Version 2
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector String
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Access Vector
- NETWORK
- Access Compatibility
- MEDIUM
- Authentication
- NONE
- Confidentiality Impact
- PARTIAL
- Integrity Impact
- PARTIAL
- Availability Impact
- PARTIAL
- Base Score
- 6.8
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- Exploitability Score
- 8.6
- Impact Score
- 6.4
CVSS Version 3
- Version
- 3.0
- Vector String
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Attack Compatibility
- HIGH
- Privileges Required
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality Impact
- HIGH
- Availability Impact
- HIGH
- Base Score
- 8.1
- Base Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitability Score
- 2.2
- Impact Score
- 5.9
References
| Reference URL | Reference Tags |
|---|---|
| http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97317 |
Sources
| Source Name | Source URL |
|---|---|
| NIST | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6949 |
| MITRE | https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6949 |
History
| Created | Old Value | New Value | Data Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-10 09:45:50 | Added to TrackCVE | |||
| 2022-12-02 14:46:18 | 2017-03-16T17:59Z | 2017-03-16T17:59:00 | CVE Published Date | updated |
| 2022-12-02 14:46:18 | 2017-04-05T01:59:01 | CVE Modified Date | updated | |
| 2022-12-02 14:46:18 | Modified | Vulnerability Status | updated |