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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-02-17T19:41:24.248Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:03:19.278Z

Reserved: 2023-01-30T14:43:33.703Z

Link: CVE-2023-24809

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-02-17T20:15:12.000

Modified: 2023-02-28T19:25:00.457

Link: CVE-2023-24809

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