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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24809: Classic Buffer Overflow

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24809: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
02/17/2023
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-nethack

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