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CVE-2015-4556

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The string-translate* procedure in the data-structures unit in CHICKEN before 4.10.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Affected products

• chicken: through 4.9.0

References

• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html
• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/712
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54
• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html
• http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/712
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97293
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54

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