vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-6831: chicken -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 30, 2016
Added
Mar 31, 2017
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

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).

Solution

debian-upgrade-chicken
Title
NEW

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