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CVE-2019-19905

NetHack 3.6.x before 3.6.4 is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading very long lines from configuration files.

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1 proof of concept on GitHub

Summary

NetHack 3.6.x before 3.6.4 is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading very long lines from configuration files. This affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid, and shared systems that allow users to upload their own configuration files.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 6

bugs.debian.org

GitHub · NetHack/NetHack

nethack.org

GitHub · dpmdpm2/CVE-2019-19905