{"action":"Upgrade chicken to 4.12.0-0.2 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"4.12.0-0.2","introduced":"0"}],"component":"chicken","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["4.12.0-0.2"],"id":"tcs_01M5NBPVMPZQYP26FXCZ3ME6MS","modified_at":"2026-09-22T07:00:34.589813661Z","published_at":"2017-01-10T15:59:00.470Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6831","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-6831"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6831#Debian:13/chicken","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-6831"}],"summary":"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 exha"}