CVE-2014-3776

Name	CVE-2014-3776
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	748904

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
chicken (PTS)	bullseye	5.2.0-2	fixed
	bookworm	5.3.0-1	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	5.3.0-2	fixed

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

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
chicken	source	(unstable)	4.9.0-1			748904

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