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Fedora 25: 2017-cc606f1001 Moderate Update for Chicken DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey May 22, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical patch addressing CVE-2017-6949 in the chicken package for Fedora 25, with an upgrade to version 4.12.0 to bolster security measures.
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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 4.12.0
Release: 2.fc25
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system

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