CVE-2014-3776

NameCVE-2014-3776
DescriptionBuffer 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs748904

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
chicken (PTS)buster4.13.0-1fixed
bullseye5.2.0-2fixed
bookworm5.3.0-1fixed
sid, trixie5.3.0-1.1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
chickensource(unstable)4.9.0-1748904

Notes

[squeeze] - chicken <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - chicken <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html
http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commit;h=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e

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