Bug 1947593 (CVE-2021-30184) - CVE-2021-30184 gnuchess: buffer overflows in the cmd_pgnload() and cmd_pgnreplay() functions in frontend/cmd.cc
Summary: CVE-2021-30184 gnuchess: buffer overflows in the cmd_pgnload() and cmd_pgnrep...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2021-30184
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1947594 1947595
Blocks: 1947596
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2021-04-08 17:59 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-04-08 23:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-04-08 23:35:31 UTC
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-08 17:59:26 UTC
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.

References:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00001.html

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-04-08 17:59:45 UTC
Created gnuchess tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1947595]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1947594]

Comment 2 Tomas Hoger 2021-04-08 19:25:40 UTC
The affected code appeared in multiple functions - cmd_load(), cmd_pgnload(), and cmd_pgnreplay().  It seems it was first introduced in gnuchess version 6.0 - the latest version 5.08 tagged in upstream CVS repo does not have them yet, and they are included in the initial import to the upstream SVN repo.

The cmd_load() was previously fixed via:

http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/chess?view=revision&revision=182

The other two cases are not yet fixed upstream.

Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-04-08 23:35:31 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-30184


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