CVE-2023-24809
Published Feb 17, 2023
Last updated 2 years ago
Overview
- 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.
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 5.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 1.8
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- MEDIUM
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "9C2EA58F-C8B5-47CC-AE15-2DF9546846B2",
"versionEndExcluding": "3.6.7",
"versionStartIncluding": "3.6.2"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]