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Fedora 21 Chicken 2015-0620 Moderate: Buffer Overflow Fix Details

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Calendar Grey April 7, 2015
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A critical update for Chicken on Fedora 21 fixes a buffer overflow vulnerability that could let attackers execute arbitrary code. Upgrade now to enhance security
Patches security vulnerability discussed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483 Latest upstream release

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:

Patches security vulnerability discussed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483 Latest upstream release. Latest upstream release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora security patch Chicken

Change Log

* 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 #1181483 - chicken: buffer overflow vulnerability in CHICKEN Scheme's substring-index[-ci] procedures https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483

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 .

Name: chicken
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 4.9.0.1
Release: 3.fc21
URL: http://call-cc.org
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update buffer overflow Fedora security patch Chicken

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