CVE-2023-24809

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/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
Related
Published
2023-02-17T20:15:12Z
Modified
2025-01-14T11:33:52.400270Z
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
[none]
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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / nethack

Package

Name
nethack
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nethack?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.6.6-2
3.6.6-3
3.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / nethack

Package

Name
nethack
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nethack?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*

3.6.6-3
3.6.7-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / nethack

Package

Name
nethack
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/nethack?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.7-1

Affected versions

3.*

3.6.6-3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Git / github.com/nethack/nethack

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nethack/nethack
Events

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.wip.2019.11.04
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