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).
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-643-1 chicken security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-7716 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).
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T01:43:37.979Z

Reserved: 2016-08-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-6831

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-10T15:59:00.470

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-6831

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