Fedora 22 Critical Advisory: FEDORA-2015-10333 Out-of-Bounds Bug in Chicken
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June 30, 2015
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.
Topics Covered
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 .
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Name: chicken
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 4.9.0.1
Release: 4.fc22
URL: http://call-cc.org
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system
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