[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200805-11 ] Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200805-11

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Date: May 12, 2008

Bugs: #198979

ID: 200805-11

 

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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

 

Description

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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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An attacker could entice a user to process specially crafted regular

expressions with Chicken, which could possibly lead to the execution of

arbitrary code, a Denial of Service or the disclosure of sensitive

information.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-scheme/chicken-3.1.0"

 

References

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[ 1 ] GLSA 200711-30

http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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