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CVE-2016-6831

The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures did not free memory correctly when the execve() call failed, resulting in a memory lea…

Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.8%
percentile 78%
Public exploits
0
none known

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).

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.76% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

  • securityfocus.com /bid/92550 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • lists.nongnu.org /archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred

Sources

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