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CVE-2016-6830

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.15%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2016-6830
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.15%

Original NVD Description

The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).