[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: chicken-4.9.0.1-3.fc21
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Tue Apr 7 07:28:42 UTC 2015
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-0620
2015-01-14 06:25:43
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Name : chicken
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 4.9.0.1
Release : 3.fc21
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:
Patches security vulnerability discussed here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483
Latest upstream release.
Latest upstream release.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Jan 13 2015 Ricky Elrod <relrod at redhat.com> - 4.9.0.1-3
- Apply patch to work around buffer overrun:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1181483 - chicken: buffer overflow vulnerability in CHICKEN Scheme's substring-index[-ci] procedures
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1181483
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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 Project GPG key. More details on the
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https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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