Fedora 24: Security Update for Chicken Addresses Memory Leak And Overflow
fedora
January 19, 2017
Security fix for CVE-2016-6830, CVE-2016-6831
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:
Security fix for CVE-2016-6830, CVE-2016-6831
Change Log
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1369108 - CVE-2016-6830 CVE-2016-6831 chicken: Buffer overflow and a memory leak in the POSIX unit's procedures process-execute and process-spawn
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369108
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade chicken' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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Name: chicken
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.11.0
Release: 3.fc24
URL: http://call-cc.org
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system
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