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Fedora 24: Security Update for Chicken Addresses Memory Leak And Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 19, 2017
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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

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security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update Fedora memory leak chicken

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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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow software update Fedora memory leak chicken

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