Vulnerability CVE-2017-9334


Published: 2017-06-01

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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Call-cc -> Chicken 

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

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