CVE-2014-9651

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."

Published: 2015-08-28 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-9651 is rated Moderate Risk (50.5/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.43%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9651

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 0.90% 0.43% -0.47%
2 2025-03-29 0.44% 0.90% +0.46%
3 2023-03-07 — 0.44% —

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9651

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-2014-9651

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9651

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-9651 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-2014-9651
gentoo normal CVE-2014-9651: 1 GLSA(s) (201612-54), 1 atom(s) (dev-scheme/chicken); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-9651
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9651 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (chicken), 27 status rows across 27 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 8, DNE 1, needed 1, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9651

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9651

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
call-cc chicken 4.9.0 cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
call-cc chicken 4.9.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.9.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
call-cc chicken 4.10.0 cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:4.10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9651

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