CVE-2017-9334

high

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.

References

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-06-01

Updated: 2020-08-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High