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GLSA-200805-11 : Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32302

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200805-11 (Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 Chicken includes a copy of PCRE which is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows and memory corruption vulnerabilities (GLSA 200711-30).
 Impact :

 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.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-scheme/chicken-3.1.0'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200711-30

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200805-11

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32302

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200805-11.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:chicken, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2008

Reference Information

GLSA: 200805-11