Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.bionic:def:20176949000
Revision Date:2017-03-16Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-6949 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) - medium.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-6949
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic) is installed.
  • AND NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'chicken' package in bionic is not affected (note: '4.12.0-0.3').
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