Alpine Linux: CVE-2019-19905: nethack Privilege escalation/remote code execution/crash in configuration parsing
8
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
12/19/2019
05/09/2020
05/08/2020
05/08/2020
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-nethack
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