GSD-2015-8972

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20
Details
Stack-based buffer overflow in the ValidateMove function in frontend/move.cc in GNU Chess (aka gnuchess) before 6.2.4 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large input, as demonstrated when in UCI mode.
Aliases
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