CVE-2016-6831: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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 wil...

PT-2017-9029 · Chicken +1 · Chicken Scheme +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: CHICKEN Scheme versions prior to 4.12 Description: The issue arises from the "process-execute" and "process-spawn" procedures in CHICKEN Scheme, which utilize fixed-size buffers to hold arguments and environment variables for the execve call...