Buffer overflow in Chicken Scheme - CVE-2013-4385
Published: October 9, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42481
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4385
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.
Buffer overflow in the "read-string!" procedure in the "extras" unit in CHICKEN stable before 4.8.0.5 and development snapshots before 4.8.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.
Affected software
Chicken Scheme
Fedora
chicken
Fedora
chicken
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4385
Install update from vendor's website.
chicken - update to 4.8.0.4-4.el6
External References
- http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00000.html
- http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55009
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62690
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54