DEBIAN-CVE-2021-30184

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-30184
Import Source
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JSON Data
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Upstream
Published
2021-04-07T12:15:16Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:23:10.721275Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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 cmdpgnload and cmdpgnreplay functions in frontend/cmd.cc.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / gnuchess

Package

Name
gnuchess
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuchess?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.7-1+deb11u1

Affected versions

6.*

6.2.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / gnuchess

Package

Name
gnuchess
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuchess?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.7-1+deb12u1

Affected versions

6.*

6.2.7-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / gnuchess

Package

Name
gnuchess
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuchess?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / gnuchess

Package

Name
gnuchess
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/gnuchess?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.2.9-0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}