CVE-2014-3776
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 4.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.5% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3715)
- Published
- May 20, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3715 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- call-cc / chicken
- call-cc / chicken
References
- http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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