CVE-2014-3776 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the \read-u8vector!\ procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 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.

Reference

http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commit;h=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-05/msg00032.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/328 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/334 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67468 https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1124 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54