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CVE-2016-6831
Published: Jan 10, 2017
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
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).
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
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[chicken-announce] 20160812 [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in process-execute and process-spawn
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