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CVE-2023-24809

NetHack Call command buffer overflow PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Starting with version 3.6.2 and prior to version 3.6.7, illegal input to the "C" (call) command can cause a buffer overflow and crash the NetHack process. This vulnerability may be a security issue for systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and for shared systems. For all systems, it may result in a process crash. This issue is resolved in NetHack 3.6.7. There are no known workarounds.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
NetHack / NetHackaffected >= 3.6.2, < 3.6.7

CWE

CWE-120

References

ADP enrichment

CVE

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CISA-ADP

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