GCVE-110-MAGEIA-2016-390

Advisory Published

Vulnetix · Advisory published November 17, 2016

gnuchess before 6.2.4 is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow related to user move input, where 160 characters of input can crash gnuchess (CVE-2015-8972).

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Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Platforms
Mageia	gnuchess	0 (affected), 6.1.1-3.1.mga5 (unaffected)	—

Aliases

CVE-2015-8972

References

Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

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Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

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