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nethack: buffer overflow

Package(s):

nethack, slashem, falconseye

CVE #(s):

CAN-2003-0358 CAN-2003-0359

Created:

February 18, 2003

Updated:

July 15, 2003

Description:

Overflowing a buffer in nethack may lead to privilege escalation to games uid.

Read the the full advisory for the details.

Note that falconseye does not contain the file permission error CAN-2003-0359 which affected some other nethack packages.

Alerts:

Debian	DSA-350-1	2003-07-15
Debian	DSA-316-3	2003-06-17
Debian	DSA-316-2	2003-06-11
Debian	DSA-316-1	2003-06-11
Gentoo	200302-08	2003-02-18

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