CVE-2015-4556 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The string-translate* procedure in the data-structures unit in CHICKEN before 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Published: 2017-03-29

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 1.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2015-4576	The string-translate* procedure in the data-structures unit in CHICKEN before 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01646.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/712
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97293
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54

History

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Subscriptions

Call-cc Chicken

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-29T14:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:18:11.922Z

Reserved: 2015-06-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4556

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-03-29T14:59:00.233

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-4556

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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