CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-19905
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-12-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
NetHack 3.6.x before 3.6.4 is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading very long lines from configuration files. This affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid, and shared systems that allow users to upload their own configuration files.
Affected configurations
• nethack nethack (>= 3.6.0 < 3.6.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/947005 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f001de79542b8c38b1f8e6d7eaefbbd28ab94b47 Patch
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f4a840a48f4bcf11757b3d859e9d53cc9d5ef226 Patch
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-3cm7-rgh5-9pq5 Third Party Advisory
- https://nethack.org/security/ Vendor Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/947005 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f001de79542b8c38b1f8e6d7eaefbbd28ab94b47 Patch
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f4a840a48f4bcf11757b3d859e9d53cc9d5ef226 Patch
- https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-3cm7-rgh5-9pq5 Third Party Advisory
- https://nethack.org/security/ Vendor Advisory