CVE-2017-9334 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.

Published: 2017-06-01

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2017-18269	An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

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 0.00436.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2017-05/msg00000.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2017-05/msg00099.html

History

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Subscriptions

Call-cc Chicken

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-01T04:53:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:44.325Z

Reserved: 2017-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9334

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-01T05:29:00.233

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

Link: CVE-2017-9334

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-20

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