CVE-2016-6831
HIGHCHICKEN < 4.11.0 - Denial of Service via Memory Leak in process-execute and process-spawn
Title source: llmDescription
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 (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550
Patch, Vendor Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0175
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (1)
call-cc/chicken
< 4.11.0
Published
Jan 10, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026