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Message-Id: <20150615112829.F231E52E47B@smtpvbsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 07:28:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: peter@...e-magic.net
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request for buffer overrun in CHICKEN Scheme's string-translate* procedure

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> memcmp() on
> each index of the string being searched in, with a length of the source
> string in the alist map argument, which caused it to read beyond the bounds
> of the searched string.
> 
> This bug affects all released versions of CHICKEN prior to 4.10.0.

> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html

> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html

> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/txtHKRTbJy12t.txt

> string-translate* would scan from every position in the target string
> for each source string in the map, even if that would mean scanning
> past the end.  The out-of-bounds read would be limited to the size of
> the overlapping prefix in the trailing garbage beyond the string

Use CVE-2015-4556 for this out-of-bounds read issue.

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