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TITLE:
Chicken PCRE Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30155

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30155/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Chicken 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/18628/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability been reported in Chicken, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially
compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of a vulnerable version
of the PCRE library.

For more information:
SA28923

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.1.0.

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA28923:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28923/

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