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chicken -- Potential buffer overrun in string-translate*

Affected packages
		chicken	<	4.10.0.r2,1

Details

VuXML ID	0da404ad-1891-11e5-a1cf-002590263bf5
Discovery	2015-06-15
Entry	2015-06-22
Modified	2015-07-31

chicken developer Peter Bex reports:

Using gcc's Address Sanitizer, it was discovered that the string-translate* procedure from the data-structures unit can scan beyond the input string's length up to the length of the source strings in the map that's passed to string-translate*. This issue was fixed in master 8a46020, and it will make its way into CHICKEN 4.10.

This bug is present in all released versions of CHICKEN.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2015-4556
FreeBSD PR	ports/200980
Message	http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-06/msg00010.html
Message	http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2015-07/msg00001.html
Message	http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2015-06/msg00037.html