vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-9954: chicken -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 21, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package (aka IrRegular Expressions) before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern.

Solution

debian-upgrade-chicken
Title
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