CVE-2021-30184

Description

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 cmd_pgnload and cmd_pgnreplay functions in frontend/cmd.cc.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-28

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00001.html

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XXOTMUSBVUZNA3JMPG6BU37DQW2YOJWS/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SOGPLC77ZL2FACSOE5MWDS3YH3RBNQAQ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QC74RWMDLSQGV6Z3ZABNTPABB33S4YNF/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00007.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3