cvelist/2016/6xxx/CVE-2016-6831.json

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        "ASSIGNER": "secalert@redhat.com",
        "ID": "CVE-2016-6831",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
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    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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)."
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        "reference_data": [
            {
                "name": "92550",
                "refsource": "BID",
                "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92550"
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            {
                "name": "[chicken-announce] 20160812 [SECURITY] Buffer overrun in process-execute and process-spawn",
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "url": "http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2016-08/msg00001.html"
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