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Fedora 21 Chicken Update: Critical Out-of-Bounds Issue Resolved

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Calendar Grey June 30, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Follow these steps to fix the out of bounds issue in Chicken Scheme on Fedora 21: check version, download and apply the official patch, rebuild and verify your install.
Apply patch to work around out of bounds bug: BZ 1231871.

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical Fedora software patch out of bounds chicken

Change Log

* Sat Jun 13 2015 Ricky Elrod - 4.9.0.1-4 - Apply patch to work around out of bounds bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871 * Tue Jan 13 2015 Ricky Elrod - 4.9.0.1-3 - Apply patch to work around buffer overrun: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483

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 .

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Name: chicken
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.9.0.1
Release: 4.fc21
URL: http://call-cc.org
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system

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security advisory critical Fedora software patch out of bounds chicken

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