UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6830
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830
Related
Published
2017-01-10T15:59:00Z
Modified
2025-01-13T10:21:15Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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).

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / chicken

Package

Name
chicken
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/chicken@4.9.0.1-1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

4.*

4.9.0.1-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "ubuntu_priority": "medium"
}