| 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, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, 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 |
| 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