CVE-2014-3776

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-05-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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 corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.

Affected products

chicken: through 4.9.0; 4.8.0.7

References

http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/334
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67468
https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1124
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54
http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328

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