Advisories » MGASA-2020-0194

Updated gnuchess packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 May 2020
Modification date: 05 May 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-15767

Description

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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-15767

SRPMS

7/core

• gnuchess-6.2.6-1.mga7