Chicken: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

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

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Chicken. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Chicken users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-scheme/chicken-4.10.0-r1"