Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6830
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability 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).
Published Date
January 10, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory