| Summary: | <dev-scheme/chicken-4.13.0-r1: Unchecked size argument in malloc() in CHICKEN Scheme (CVE-2017-6949) | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Security | Reporter: | Agostino Sarubbo <ago> |
| Component: | Vulnerabilities | Assignee: | Gentoo Security <security> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | minor | CC: | ewfalor, maksbotan, proxy-maint, scheme |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433278 | ||
| Whiteboard: | B3 [noglsa cve] | ||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | 620320, 625392 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | |||
CVE-2017-6949 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=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. I've added chicken-4.13, which fixed all CVEs: https://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.13.0/NEWS tree is clean. GLSA Vote: No |
From ${URL} : An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through. 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. References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/627 http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-03/msg00000.html @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.