| Name | CVE-2016-6831 |
| 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). |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-643-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 834845 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| chicken (PTS) | bullseye | 5.2.0-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 5.3.0-1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 5.3.0-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[stretch] - chicken <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - chicken <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
Fixed in the same upstream patch which is provided for CVE-2016-6830