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Fedora 24: FEDORA-2017-947da3daa5 Critical: Chicken Unchecked Size Issue

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Patch for CVE-2018-1234 and improvement for meth in Fedora 25 enhances protection and performance in Python development.
Fix for CVE-2017-6949, also bump to 4.12.0

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.

Fix for CVE-2017-6949, also bump to 4.12.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1433278 - CVE-2017-6949 chicken: Unchecked size argument in malloc() in CHICKEN Scheme

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433278

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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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 4.12.0
Release: 2.fc24
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system

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