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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 "&gt;=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>