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.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-03-16T17:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T15:49:02.870Z
Reserved: 2017-03-16T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-6949
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 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2017-03-16T17:59:00.157
Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860
Link: CVE-2017-6949
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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