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Mageia: 2020-0194 Moderate: Gnuchess Buffer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey May 5, 2020
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0195 updates gnome-shell to address serious security flaw. Keep your system safe!
Updated gnuchess package fixes security vulnerability: A vulnerability was found in GNU Chess 6.2.5, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_load function in frontend/cm...

Summary

Updated gnuchess package fixes security vulnerability:
A vulnerability was found in GNU Chess 6.2.5, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_load function in frontend/cmd.cc via a crafted chess position in an EPD file (CVE-2019-15767).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26557

- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/TB4FURVE4C35UDXGAAHJL5NIHJQ3WDZT/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15767

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow package update software fix Mageia chess

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/gnuchess-6.2.6-1.mga7

Publication date: 05 May 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0194.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-15767

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue buffer overflow package update software fix Mageia chess

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