Resource Exhaustion Affecting chicken package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
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- published10 Jan 2017
- disclosed10 Jan 2017
Introduced: 10 Jan 2017
CVE-2016-6831 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:8 chicken.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream chicken package and not the chicken package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
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).