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CVE-2020-5253 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nethack), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
NetHack before version 3.6.0 allowed malicious use of escaping of characters in the configuration file (usually .nethackrc) which could be exploited. This bug is patched in NetHack 3.6.0.