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
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2023-02-17T20:15:12Z
- Modified
- 2025-07-29T10:50:08.735045Z
- 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
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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
Debian:12 / nethack
Package
- Name
- nethack
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/nethack?arch=source
Debian:13 / nethack
Package
- Name
- nethack
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/nethack?arch=source
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.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