Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 692
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 692

Fedora: 2019-79b80b66d9 Critical: Nethack 3.6.4 Privilege Escalation Fix

fedora
Calendar Grey January 3, 2020
Dist Fedora Esm H88
A critical update for NetHack 3.6.4 on Fedora fixes significant privilege escalation issues.
Update to NetHack 3.6.4 - fixes security issue with privilege escalation: http://nethack.org/security/index.html

Summary

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game that runs on a

wide variety of computer systems, with a variety of graphical and text

interfaces all using the same game engine.

Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in

NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply

killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is

a good way to die quickly.

Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator

provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon

and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of

characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.

Update to NetHack 3.6.4 - fixes security issue with privilege escalation:

http://nethack.org/security/index.html

* Thu Dec 19 2019 Ron Olson - 3.6.4-1

- Update to NetHack 3.6.4

* Mon Dec 9 2019 Ron Olson - 3.6.3-1

- Update to NetHack 3.6.3

* Tue Aug 13 2019 Ron Olson - 3.6.2-3

- Removed Group tag and clean section

* Thu Jul 25 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 3.6.2-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_31_Mass_Rebuild

* Mon May 13 2019 Ron Olson - 3.6.2-1

- Update to NetHack 3.6.2

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-79b80b66d9' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org

Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Severity
critical
Lowest
Low
Medium
High
Critical

Product: Fedora 30
Version: 3.6.4
Release: 1.fc30
Summary: A rogue-like single player dungeon exploration game

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Related News

Your message here