Vulnerability Details CVE-2023-24809
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 13.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
References
Products affected by CVE-2023-24809
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cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:3.6.2
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cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:3.6.3
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cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:3.6.4
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cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:3.6.5
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cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:3.6.6