Description
The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
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Remediation
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Tracking
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Debian DLA |
DLA-643-1 | chicken security update |
EUVD |
EUVD-2016-7715 | The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released). |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T01:43:38.181Z
Reserved: 2016-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-6830
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.457
Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220
Link: CVE-2016-6830
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
Debian DLA
EUVD