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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-30184: Classic Buffer Overflow

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-30184: Classic Buffer Overflow

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/07/2021
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-gnuchess

References

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