CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-6831

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-01-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

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).

Affected configurations

• call-cc chicken (<= 4.11.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References