CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-30184
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-120
Description
GNU Chess 6.2.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted PGN (Portable Game Notation) data. This is related to a buffer overflow in the use of a .tmp.epd temporary file in the cmd_pgnload and cmd_pgnreplay functions in frontend/cmd.cc.
Affected configurations
• gnu chess 6.2.7
• fedoraproject fedora 32
• fedoraproject fedora 33
• fedoraproject fedora 34
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QC74RWMDLSQGV6Z3ZABNTPABB33S4YNF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SOGPLC77ZL2FACSOE5MWDS3YH3RBNQAQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XXOTMUSBVUZNA3JMPG6BU37DQW2YOJWS/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00001.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-28 Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00007.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QC74RWMDLSQGV6Z3ZABNTPABB33S4YNF/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SOGPLC77ZL2FACSOE5MWDS3YH3RBNQAQ/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XXOTMUSBVUZNA3JMPG6BU37DQW2YOJWS/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00001.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-28 Third Party Advisory