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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - security-advisories@github.com
- Published
- 2023-02-17
- Last modified
- 2025-03-10
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-2cqv-5w4v-mgch
- https://nethack.org/security/CVE-2023-24809.html
