Alpine: multiple chicken packages: security update to 4.12.0-r2 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400824

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400824

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-6949

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/2/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6949

BID: 97317

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