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Fedora 26 Critical: Chicken Security Update for CVE-2017-11343 DoS

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
CVE-2017-12345 patched in Fedora 27 chicken upgrade. Update to boost security and enhance functionality in Scheme.
Fix for CVE-2017-11343

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-2017-11343

[ 1 ] Bug #1471816 - CVE-2017-11343 chicken: Predictable symbol table due to using default libc seed in PRNG

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1471816

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 4.12.0
Release: 3.fc26
Summary: A practical and portable Scheme system

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