CVE-2015-8972

CWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow7 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
2.4%
top 14.99%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Chess
Timeline
PublishedJan 23
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debiangnuchess< 6.2.4-1+3
▶NVDgnu/chess< 6.2.4

Patches

Patch: svn.savannah.gnu.org ↗Patch: svn.savannah.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m3c3-j429-9q78: Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8972: Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move↗2017-01-23
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OSV
CVE-2015-8972: Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move↗2017-01-23
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
gnuchess: Stack-based buffer overflow on user move input↗2016-10-29
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Debian
CVE-2015-8972: gnuchess - Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move.cc in ...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8972 gnuchess: Stack-based buffer overflow on user move input↗2016-11-15
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