High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jan 10, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2016-6831
CVE-2016-6831
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).
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References
2- lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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