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Alpine: multiple nethack packages: security update to 3.6.7-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405718

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Starting with version 3.6.2 and prior to version
 3.6.7, illegal input to the "C" (call) command can cause a buffer overflow and crash the NetHack process.
 This vulnerability may be a security issue for systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and for
 shared systems. For all systems, it may result in a process crash. This issue is resolved in NetHack
 3.6.7. There are no known workarounds. (CVE-2023-24809)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-24809

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 405718

Version: Revision 1.29

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-24809

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/17/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24809