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Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 15:03:38 +0200
From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@...all.nl>
To: Open Source Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: CHICKEN Scheme incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6122 (select() fs_set buffer overrun)

On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:07:02PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> There are two commits which together fix the bug:
> http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commitdiff;h=9e2022652258e8a30e5cedbf0abc9cd85a0f6af7
> http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commitdiff;h=556108092774086b6c86c2e27daf3f740ffec091

Correction, this introduced a bug on systems where connect() can return
EINPROGRESS, resulting in an exception being raised when connecting to a
socket and immediately writing to it.  A third patch is required to fix
this bug:
http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=chicken-core.git;a=commitdiff;h=766056cd5f26b1d529405705449cb534609c113f

Cheers,
Peter
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