CVE-2016-6831

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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).
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-6831
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2017-01-10T15:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-01-11T02:55:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:call-cc:chicken:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 4.11.0
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 5
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html Patch Vendor Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6831
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6831
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 09:50:47 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 12:44:14 2017-01-10T15:59Z 2017-01-10T15:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 12:44:14 2017-01-11T02:55:07 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 12:44:14 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated