debian · CVE-2023-24809

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Priority: not yet assigned Published: Updated: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:58:25 GMT

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CVE-2023-24809 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (nethack), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 3, open 2.

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.

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