Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities in Chicken could result in the execution of arbitrary code. chicken 2008-05-12 2008-05-12 198979 remote 3.1.0 3.1.0

Chicken is a Scheme interpreter and native Scheme to C compiler.

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

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-scheme/chicken-3.1.0"

GLSA 200711-30 p-y p-y p-y