CVE-2014-9651

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-28 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in CHICKEN 4.9.0.x before 4.9.0.2, 4.9.x before 4.9.1, and before 5.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a positive START argument to the "substring-index[-ci] procedures."

Affected products

chicken: 4.9.0, 4.9.0.1, 4.10.0

References

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-12/msg00000.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2015-01/msg00048.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72011
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-12/msg00000.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2015-01/msg00048.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72011
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54

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