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Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in proc


From: Peter Bex
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] [Chicken-announce] [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in process-execute and process-spawn
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 20:40:19 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 08:54:19AM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> A buffer overflow error was found in the POSIX unit's procedures
> process-execute and process-spawn (bug #1308).

This bug has been assigned CVE-2016-6830.

> Additionally, a memory leak existed in this code, which would be
> triggered when an error is raised during argument and environment
> processing (e.g., if one of the arguments wasn't a string).

This bug has been assigned CVE-2016-6831.

Regards,
The CHICKEN Team

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