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CVE-2017-6949

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 1.47%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-16 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2017-6949
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
1.47%

Original NVD Description

An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0. When using a nonstandard CHICKEN-specific extension to allocate an SRFI-4 vector in unmanaged memory, the vector size would be used in unsanitised form as an argument to malloc(). With an unexpected size, the impact may have been a segfault or buffer overflow.