CVE-2016-6831 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can cause resource exhaustion and denial of service by triggering memory leaks in process execution procedures.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-6831?
CVE-2016-6831 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Jan 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official 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).
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6831?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Call-Cc Chicken.
How do I fix CVE-2016-6831?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-6831 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6831 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as CLEANSTART-2023-EI38317, DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6831, GHSA-x279-7m5p-wjmv, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6831.