UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830
- Source
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6830
- Import Source
- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2016/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6830
- Upstream
- Published
- 2017-01-10T15:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-16T07:17:57.371443Z
- Severity
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- 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Ubuntu - medium
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size buffers for holding the arguments and environment variables to use in its execve() call. This would allow user-supplied argument/environment variable lists to trigger a buffer overrun. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
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