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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200805-11">
<title>Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities in Chicken could result in the execution of
arbitrary code.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">chicken</product>
<announced>2008-05-12</announced>
<revised count="01">2008-05-12</revised>
<bug>198979</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="dev-scheme/chicken" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.1.0</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">3.1.0</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Chicken is a Scheme interpreter and native Scheme to C compiler.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
Chicken includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer
overflows and memory corruption vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-30).
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
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.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-scheme/chicken-3.1.0"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml">GLSA 200711-30</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-05-12T11:47:42Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-05-12T11:47:52Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-05-12T12:10:35Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>
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