Where
AND
-Infinity
0
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Buffer overflow in CHICKEN 4.9.0 and 4.9.0.1 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the 'select' function.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Input Validation
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

It was discovered that the string-translate procedure from the data-structures unit can scan beyond the input string's length up to the length of the source strings in the map that's passed to string-translate. This issue was fixed in master 8a46020, and it will make its way into CHICKEN 4.10.

This bug is present in all released versions of CHICKEN.

Upstream patches: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/txtHKRTbJy12t.txt

CVE request: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/709

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