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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9334

An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results in an unsafe pointer dereference in all CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.13, whi...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 chicken

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.12.0-0.2"}]}]

Debian:13 chicken

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.12.0-0.2"}]}]

Debian:14 chicken

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.12.0-0.2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org