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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 17, 2023· Updated Mar 10, 2025

NetHack Call command buffer overflow

CVE-2023-24809

Description

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

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Patches

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No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

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