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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8972

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move.cc in GNU Chess (aka gnuchess) before 6.2.4 might allow context-dependent at...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move.cc in GNU Chess (aka gnuchess) before 6.2.4 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large input, as demonstrated when in UCI mode.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 gnuchess

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.2.4-1"}]}]

Debian:13 gnuchess

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.2.4-1"}]}]

Debian:14 gnuchess

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"6.2.4-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org