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CVE-2015-8972
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-23T21:59:00.847 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:35.670

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move.cc in GNU Chess (aka gnuchess) before 6.2.4 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large input, as demonstrated when in UCI mode.

Affected products

gnu — chess

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