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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2017-6949)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

CHICKEN reports :

- CVE-2017-6949: Unchecked malloc() call in SRFI-4 constructors when allocating in non-GC memory, resulting in potential 1-word buffer overrun and/or segfault

- CVE-2017-9334: 'length' crashes on improper lists

- CVE-2017-11343: The randomization factor of the symbol table was set before the random seed was set, causing it to have a fixed value on many platforms

Fix for CVE-2017-6949, also bump to 4.12.0

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It was found that CHICKEN did not sanitize the size argument when allocating SRFI-4 vectors, which could lead to segfaults or buffer overflows with some sizes.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 4.7.0-1+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your chicken packages.

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
255057	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-6949	Nessus	Misc.	high
111655	FreeBSD : chicken -- multiple vulnerabilities (5a771686-9e33-11e8-8b2d-9cf7a8059466)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
101584	Fedora 26 : chicken (2017-1f3ee3bea6)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100335	Fedora 25 : chicken (2017-cc606f1001)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100333	Fedora 24 : chicken (2017-947da3daa5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
99602	Debian DLA-908-1 : chicken security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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