CVE-2023-24809
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24809
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-24809.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-24809
- Aliases
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- GHSA-2cqv-5w4v-mgch
- Downstream
- Published
- 2023-02-17T19:41:24.248Z
- Modified
- 2026-04-10T04:55:53.716205Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- NetHack Call command buffer overflow
- Details
-
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.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-120" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/24xxx/CVE-2023-24809.json" }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/nethack/nethack
Affected versions
NetHack-3.*
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
NetHack-3.6.4_Released
NetHack-3.6.5_PostRelease
NetHack-3.6.5_Released
NetHack-3.6.6_PostRelease
NetHack-3.6.6_Released
v3.*
v3.6.3.757eca7
v3.6.3.wip.2019.10.29