Buffer overflow in the "read-string!" procedure in the "extras" unit in CHICKEN stable before 4.8.0.5 and development snapshots before…

Description

Buffer overflow in the "read-string!" procedure in the "extras" unit in CHICKEN stable before 4.8.0.5 and development snapshots before 4.8.3 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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• 62690 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• [chicken-announce] 20130927 Re: [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some uses of read-string! procedure from "extras" (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [chicken-announce] 20130926 [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some uses of read-string! procedure from "extras" (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• [chicken-announce] 20131003 Chicken 4.8.0.5 released (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• GLSA-201612-54 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 55009 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 16:45 UTC.