CVE-2016-6831 - CVE House
Back to Database
Status published High CVE-2016-6831

The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures did not free memory correctly...

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).

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

THREAT MONITOR

Am I Vulnerable?

Launch our assessment wizard to check if your infrastructure is exposed to • CVE-2016-6831

Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

References

More from call-cc

View All →
CVE-2022-45145
egg-compile.scm in CHICKEN 5.x before 5.3.1 allows arbitrary OS command...
Unknown 0
CVE-2017-9334
An incorrect "pair?" check in the Scheme "length" procedure results...
High 7.5
CVE-2017-6949
An issue was discovered in CHICKEN Scheme through 4.12.0. When...
High 8.1
CVE-2017-11343
Due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2012-6125, all versions of...
High 7.5
CVE-2016-6830
The "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme used fixed-size...
Critical 9.8

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

chicken
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: January 10th, 2017
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.