Fedora 21: chicken Security Update
Summary
CHICKEN is a compiler for the Scheme programming language.
CHICKEN produces portable, efficient C, supports almost all of the R5RS
Scheme language standard, and includes many enhancements and extensions.
Update Information:
Apply patch to work around out of bounds bug: BZ 1231871.
Change Log
* Sat Jun 13 2015 Ricky Elrod
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1231871 - CVE-2015-4556 chicken: out-of-bounds read in CHICKEN Scheme's string-translate* procedure https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update chicken' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .