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CVE-2023-24809
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-02-17T20:15:12.000 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:39:54.243

Summary

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.

Affected products

nethack — nethack

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References

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