CVE-2016-6831
N/A
Published: January 10, 2017 at 03:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorChicken
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
Description
The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures did not free memory correctly when the execve() call failed, resulting in a memory leak. This could be abused by an attacker to cause resource exhaustion or a denial of service. This affects all releases of CHICKEN up to and including 4.11 (it will be fixed in 4.12 and 5.0, which are not yet released).
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.htmlVDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400
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