CVE-2019-19905

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19905
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19905.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-19905
Aliases
  • GHSA-3cm7-rgh5-9pq5
Downstream
Published
2019-12-19T18:15:12.647Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:59:59.622887290Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nethack/nethack

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nethack/nethack
Events
Introduced
585e9f1b35fda7b47f8d27d12f7e93e12a69a7bc
Fixed
cf9e92677a18d1bc66c040068b2e666c651c7522
Fixed
f001de79542b8c38b1f8e6d7eaefbbd28ab94b47
Fixed
f4a840a48f4bcf11757b3d859e9d53cc9d5ef226
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.6.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.6.4"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

NetHack-3.*
NetHack-3.6.0_RC05
NetHack-3.6.0_Release
NetHack-3.6.1_RC01
NetHack-3.6.1_Release
NetHack-3.6.2_Release
NetHack-3.6.2_Released
NetHack-3.6.3.beta1.2019.11.17
NetHack-3.6.3.wip.2019.10.29
NetHack-3.6.3.wip.2019.10.30
NetHack-3.6.3_Released
NetHack-3.6.3_WIP
v3.*
v3.6.3.757eca7
v3.6.3.wip.2019.10.29

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-19905.json"