CVE-2017-9334 in CHICKEN Scheme

Summary

An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, which allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by passing an improper list to an application that calls "length" on it.

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• Reservation: 05/31/2017
• Disclosure: 06/01/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-101882 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.4
• EPSS: 0.00436
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9334
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9334
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-9334/