CVE-2016-6831
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-01-10 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 01:43
Severity ?
Summary
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).
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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