CVE-2014-3776
Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
02 Description
Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory
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
- 4.49% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.2% 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 2026-06-17.
- 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
- 2014-05-20 14:00Z12 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 10:57Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-05-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- 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
- 996a839f4111ed2a302ffa5826324f2acced407c1ea4d8e2a6a76337b75509e2
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com67468http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67468
- lists.gnu.org[Chicken-hackers] 20140517 [PATCH] Bound read-u8vector! to dest vector's size when no length is givenhttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html
- bugs.call-cc.orghttps://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1124
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20140519 Re: CVE request for buffer overrun in CHICKEN Schemehttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/334
- code.call-cc.orghttp://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201612-54https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54
- seclists.org[oss-security] 20140518 CVE request for buffer overrun in CHICKEN Schemehttp://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328
- lists.gnu.org[chicken-announce] 20140518 [SECURITY] Buffer-overrun in some uses of read-u8vecthttp://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- chicken Fixed in 4.9.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- chicken Fixed in 4.9.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- chicken Fixed in 4.9.0-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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