8.1
CVE-2017-6949
- EPSS 0.52%
- Published 16.03.2017 17:59:00
- Last modified 20.04.2025 01:37:25
- Source cve@mitre.org
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An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0. When using a nonstandard CHICKEN-specific extension to allocate an SRFI-4 vector in unmanaged memory, the vector size would be used in unsanitised form as an argument to malloc(). With an unexpected size, the impact may have been a segfault or buffer overflow.
| Type | Source | Score | Percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| EPSS | FIRST.org | 0.52% | 0.658 |
| Source | Base Score | Exploit Score | Impact Score | Vector string |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| nvd@nist.gov | 8.1 | 2.2 | 5.9 |
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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| nvd@nist.gov | 6.8 | 8.6 | 6.4 |
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.