Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24809: Classic Buffer Overflow

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-24809: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity

5

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Published

02/17/2023

Created

08/23/2024

Added

08/22/2024

Modified

10/02/2024

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.

Solution(s)

• alpine-linux-upgrade-nethack

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2023-24809
• CVE - 2023-24809
• https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-24809