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Bug 712128 (CVE-2020-5254) - <games-roguelike/nethack-3.6.6: exploitable out-of-bound values (CVE-2020-5254)
Summary: <games-roguelike/nethack-3.6.6: exploitable out-of-bound values (CVE-2020-5254)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2020-5254
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://nethack.org/security/CVE-2020...
Whiteboard: ~2 [noglsa cve]
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Reported: 2020-03-11 08:21 UTC by filip ambroz
Modified: 2020-04-07 22:54 UTC (History)
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Description filip ambroz 2020-03-11 08:21:35 UTC 
Some out-of-bound values for the hilite_status option can be exploited.
This vulnerability affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and shared systems that allow users to upload their own configuration files. 

References:
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-2ch6-6r8h-m2p9
https://github.com/dpmdpm2/CVE-2020-5254
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5254
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5254
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5254
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812229

Solution: upgrade to 3.6.6