Executive Summary

Summary
Title Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201612-54 First vendor Publication 2016-12-31
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2016-12-31
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Chicken, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Chicken is a scheme interpreter and native scheme to C compiler.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chicken. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-scheme/chicken-4.10.0-r1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2013-2024 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2024
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-4385 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4385
[ 3 ] CVE-2014-3776 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-3776
[ 4 ] CVE-2014-9651 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-9651
[ 5 ] CVE-2015-4556 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-4556

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-54

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201612-54.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
75 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
25 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 53

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2017-01-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201612-54.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-10165.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-10333.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_0da404ad189111e5a1cf002590263bf5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-06-23 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_e7b7f2b5177a11e5ad33f8d111029e6a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-6551.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-09 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-6553.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-02-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-22130.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-11-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17912.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-09-30 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2013-17868.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2017-07-01 09:25:35
  • Multiple Updates
2017-01-04 13:23:10
  • Multiple Updates
2016-12-31 17:23:16
  • First insertion