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Re: Untrusted startup file inclusion in Chicken Scheme


From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:41:31 -0600

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On 03/19/2013 01:12 PM, Peter Bex wrote:
Hi all,

I'd like to request a CVE identifier for an untrusted code
execution problem in Chicken Scheme: The interpreter loads a file
called ".csirc" from the current directory on startup, without
checking whether it can be trusted.

Versions 4.8.2 after c6750af99ada7fa4815ee834e4e705bcfac9c137 are
unaffected, as will 4.8.3 and later.  The first stable release to
include a fix will be 4.9.0.

For the upstream advisory info see 
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-03/msg00002.html


and (important!) the errata:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-03/msg00003.html

 Cheers, Peter

Please use CVE-2013-1874 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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