Gentoo: GLSA-200805-11 Normal: Chicken Multiple Code Risks
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May 12, 2008
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).
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