897942 – (CVE-2023-24809) games-roguelike/nethack: buffer overflow via illegal input

Bug 897942 (CVE-2023-24809) - games-roguelike/nethack: buffer overflow via illegal input

Summary: games-roguelike/nethack: buffer overflow via illegal input

Status:	CONFIRMED

Alias:	CVE-2023-24809

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/se...
Whiteboard:	B3 [ebuild]
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Reported:	2023-02-26 17:54 UTC by John Helmert III
Modified:	2023-02-26 17:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description John Helmert III archtester

2023-02-26 17:54:11 UTC

CVE-2023-24809:

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.

Please bump to 3.6.7.