{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3776","details":"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via a \"#f\" value in the NUM argument.","modified":"2025-07-16T07:32:00.983156Z","published":"2014-05-20T14:55:00Z","withdrawn":"2025-07-18T16:43:02Z","upstream":["CVE-2014-3776"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3776"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2014-05/msg00001.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commit;h=1d06ce7e21c7e903ca5dca11fda6fcf2cc52de5e"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3776"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"chicken","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/chicken@4.9.0.1-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"4.9.0.1-1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"chicken-bin","binary_version":"4.9.0.1-1"},{"binary_name":"chicken-bin-dbgsym","binary_version":"4.9.0.1-1"},{"binary_name":"libchicken-dev","binary_version":"4.9.0.1-1"},{"binary_name":"libchicken7","binary_version":"4.9.0.1-1"},{"binary_name":"libchicken7-dbgsym","binary_version":"4.9.0.1-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3776.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}