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CVE-2016-6831

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.75%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-01-10 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2016-6831
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.75%

Original NVD 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).