CVE-2014-3776

Buffer overflow in the "read-u8vector!" procedure in the srfi-4 unit in CHICKEN stable 4.8.0.7 and development snapshots before 4.9.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a "#f" value in the NUM argument.

Published: 2014-05-20 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-3776 is rated Moderate Risk (59.2/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.06%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-3776

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 3.81% 3.06% -0.75%
2 2025-03-29 3.06% 3.81% +0.75%
3 2025-03-22 — 3.06% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-3776

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-3776

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-3776

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-3776 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (chicken), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3776
gentoo normal CVE-2014-3776: 1 GLSA(s) (201612-54), 1 atom(s) (dev-scheme/chicken); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-3776
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-3776 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (chicken), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, ignored 6, DNE 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3776

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-3776

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
call-cc chicken <= 4.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:development_snapshot
call-cc chicken 4.8.0.7 cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.8.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-3776

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