CVE-2019-19905

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

3%p88

Published

Dec 19, 2019 (Dec 19, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

NetHack 3.6.x before 3.6.4 is prone to a buffer overflow vulnerability when reading very long lines from configuration files. This affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid, and shared systems that allow users to upload their own configuration files.

Vendors: nethack
Products: nethack
Weakness: CWE-120
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (3.4%)

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