Security Advisory
CVE-2016-6831
7.5
HIGH
Vulnerability 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).
Published Date
January 10, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory