CVE-2017-11343 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6125, all versions of CHICKEN Scheme up to and including 4.12.0 are vulnerable to an algorithmic complexity attack. An attacker can provide crafted input which, when inserted into the symbol table, will result in O(n) lookup time.

Published: 2017-07-16

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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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-2017-2972	Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6125, all versions of CHICKEN Scheme up to and including 4.12.0 are vulnerable to an algorithmic complexity attack. An attacker can provide crafted input which, when inserted into the symbol table, will result in O(n) lookup time.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00351.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-07/msg00000.html

History

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Subscriptions

Call-cc Chicken

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-16T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T18:05:30.587Z

Reserved: 2017-07-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11343

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-07-17T13:18:20.890

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

Link: CVE-2017-11343

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-407

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