CVE-2023-24809 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00045.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Nethack	Nethack

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:nethack:nethack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2023-28807	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.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-2cqv-5w4v-mgch
https://nethack.org/security/CVE-2023-24809.html

History

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

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

Updated: 2025-03-10T21:09:40.920Z

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

Link: CVE-2023-24809

Vulnrichment

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

NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:48:26.320

Link: CVE-2023-24809

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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