Bug 1906594 (CVE-2003-0358) - CVE-2003-0358 nethack: buffer overflow via a long -s command line option
Summary: CVE-2003-0358 nethack: buffer overflow via a long -s command line option
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2003-0358
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2020-12-10 20:47 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-03-10 19:23 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-03-10 19:23:20 UTC
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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
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