CVE-2014-9651

high

Published 2015-08-28 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

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CVSS v2

7.5

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

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9651

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2015-01/msg00048.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.10.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.10.0-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.10.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.10.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.10.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
call-cc	chicken	`4.9.0`
call-cc	chicken	`4.9.0.1`
call-cc	chicken	`4.10.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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