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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2015-6813
2015-12-05 20:05:46.823963
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Name : chicken
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 4.9.0.1
Release : 4.el7
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:
Apply patch to work around out of bounds bug: BZ 1231871.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1231871 - CVE-2015-4556 chicken: out-of-bounds read in CHICKEN Scheme's
string-translate* procedure
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231871
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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
https://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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