Vulnerability Details : CVE-2017-6949

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.
Published 2017-03-16 17:59:00
Updated 2017-04-05 01:59:01
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Overflow

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2017-6949

EPSS FAQ
0.24%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 61 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2017-6949

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
6.8
 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
8.6
6.4
 NIST
8.1
 HIGH CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
2.2
5.9
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2017-6949

  • The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2017-6949

Products affected by CVE-2017-6949

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