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Gentoo: GLSA-200805-11 Normal: Chicken Multiple Code Risks

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Calendar Grey May 12, 2008
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Several security flaws in the Chicken framework may enable unauthorized code execution. To reduce exposure, ensure you update to the latest patched versions.
Multiple vulnerabilities in Chicken could result in the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200805-11
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: May 12, 2008
      Bugs: #198979
        ID: 200805-11


Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in Chicken could result in the execution of
arbitrary code.

Background
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Chicken is a Scheme interpreter and native Scheme to C compiler.

Affected packages
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     Package             /  Vulnerable  /                   Unaffected
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  1  dev-scheme/chicken       < 3.1.0                         >= 3.1.0

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Chicken includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer
overflows and memory corruption vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-30).

Impact
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