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Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some


From: Peter Bex
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in some uses of read-string! procedure from "extras"
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:59:08 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 09:02:16PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> Hello CHICKEN users,
> 
> A problem was found with the read-string! procedure from the "extras"
> unit, when used in a very particular way.
> [...]
> It turned out that there was a missing check for the situation when
> NUM was #f and the input size to be read from the port exceeded the
> given buffer's (STRING's) size.  This will result in a buffer overrun,
> which may lead to general corruption of the stack or heap, and
> can potentially be used to execute arbitrary code.

This has been assigned CVE-2013-4385.

Kind regards,
The CHICKEN Team



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