Buffer overflow in Call-Cc Chicken

CVE-2013-4385

Buffer overflow in the "read-string!" procedure in the "extras" unit in CHICKEN stable before 4.8.0.5 and development snapshots before 4.8.3 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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.034 (87.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.