Bug 1800755 (CVE-2020-5210)

Summary:	CVE-2020-5210 nethack: command line -w option parsing is subject to a buffer overflow
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	lewk, me, tachoknight
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-07 20:35:16 UTC

In NetHack before 3.6.5, an invalid argument to the -w command line option can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and shared systems that allow users to influence command line options. Users should upgrade to NetHack 3.6.5.

Reference:
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-v5pg-hpjg-9rpp

Upstream commit:
https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/commit/f3def5c0b999478da2d0a8f0b6a7c370a2065f77

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-02-07 20:35:40 UTC

Created nethack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-8 [bug 1800756]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1800757]

Comment 2 Ron Olson 2020-02-07 20:36:12 UTC

3.6.5 fixes all these and has already been pushed to stable for F30 and F31, and is still in testing for EPEL8

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-517b2845a1 F31
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-659277b3b8 F30
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-b1d1e3e81d EPEL8

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-02-08 02:09:38 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.