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CVE-2016-6830
critical
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).
References
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html