CVE-2014-9651

high
Published 2015-08-28 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Buffer overflow in CHICKEN 4.9.0.x before 4.9.0.2, 4.9.x before 4.9.1, and before 5.0 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via a positive START argument to the "substring-index[-ci] procedures."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.10.0-1
sid Fixed 4.10.0-1
forky Fixed 4.10.0-1
bullseye Fixed 4.10.0-1
bookworm Fixed 4.10.0-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
call-ccchicken4.9.0
call-ccchicken4.9.0.1
call-ccchicken4.10.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.