[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 6 Update: chicken-4.8.0.6-2.el6

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-1471
2014-05-20 23:48:31
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Name        : chicken
Product     : Fedora EPEL 6
Version     : 4.8.0.6
Release     : 2.el6
URL         : http://call-cc.org
Summary     : A practical and portable Scheme system
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Fix for CVE-2014-3776 and bump to 4.8.0.6. Latest upstream release.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1099613 - CVE-2014-3776 chicken: buffer overflow in "read-u8vector!" procedure leads to DoS or arbitrary code exec
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1099613
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  Use
su -c 'yum update chicken' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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