nethack: CVE-2020-5254

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-5254  

Debian Bug report logs - #953978
nethack: CVE-2020-5254

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 10:15:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in version nethack/3.6.1-1

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: nethack: CVE-2020-5254
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 11:10:59 +0100
Source: nethack
Version: 3.6.1-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for nethack.

CVE-2020-5254[0]:
| In NetHack before 3.6.6, some out-of-bound values for the
| hilite_status option can be exploited. NetHack 3.6.6 resolves this
| issue.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5254
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5254
[1] https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack/security/advisories/GHSA-2ch6-6r8h-m2p9

Regards,
Salvatore



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