Buffer overflow in Call-Cc Chicken

CVE-2014-3776

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.045 (90.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Call-cc Chicken — versions 4.8.0.7
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

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