CVE-2013-4385
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.41% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 88.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2013-10-09 14:44Z13 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 16:45Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2013-06-12
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 96e34fdbeddecb98f8bdf3d4406e57a0388efa4e50b58d8947b421947b8eefde
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com62690http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/62690
- lists.nongnu.org[chicken-announce] 20130927 Re: [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some uses of read-string! procedure from "extras"http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00001.html
- lists.nongnu.org[chicken-announce] 20130926 [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some uses of read-string! procedure from "extras"http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-09/msg00000.html
- lists.gnu.org[chicken-announce] 20131003 Chicken 4.8.0.5 releasedhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-10/msg00000.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201612-54https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54
- secunia.com55009http://secunia.com/advisories/55009
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- chicken Fixed in 4.8.0.5-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chicken Fixed in 4.8.0.5-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chicken Fixed in 4.8.0.5-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- chicken Fixed in 4.8.0.5-1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.