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Bug 707110 (CVE-2020-5209, CVE-2020-5210, CVE-2020-5211, CVE-2020-5212, CVE-2020-5213, CVE-2020-5214)

Summary: <games-roguelike/nethack-3.6.6: Multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-{5209,5210,5211,5212,5213, 5214})
Product: Gentoo Security Reporter: Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) <jer>
Component: VulnerabilitiesAssignee: Gentoo Security <security>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: trivial CC: games
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712128
Whiteboard: ~2 [noglsa cve]
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-01-29 16:04:06 UTC
CVE-2020-5214	Error recovery after syntax error in configuration file is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2020-5213	SYMBOL configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2020-5212	MENUCOLOR configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2020-5211	AUTOCOMPLETE configuration file option is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2020-5210	NetHack command line -w option parsing is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2020-5209	Command line parsing of options starting with -de and -i is subject to a buffer overflow
CVE-2019-19905	Privilege escalation/remote code execution/crash in configuration parsing
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-01-29 16:10:29 UTC
That's six vulnerabilities because 3.6.4 supposedly fixed CVE-2019-19905 according to bug #706200.
Comment 2 Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2020-03-28 20:17:56 UTC
@maintainer(s), please create an appropriate ebuild