Bug 1906594 (CVE-2003-0358)

Summary:	CVE-2003-0358 nethack: buffer overflow via a long -s command line option
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-12-10 20:47:21 UTC

Buffer overflow in (1) nethack 3.4.0 and earlier, and (2) falconseye 1.9.3 and earlier, which is based on nethack, allows local users to gain privileges via a long -s command line option.

Reference and upstream patch:
http://nethack.sourceforge.net/v340/bugmore/secpatch.txt

Comment 1 Ron Olson 2021-03-10 19:23:20 UTC

Current version is > 3.4.0 and not affected by this