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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6831: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-6831: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/10/2017
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
10/01/2024

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).

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-chicken

References

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