Vulnerability CVE-2015-8972
Published: 2017-01-23   Modified: 2017-01-24

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Gnuchess project -> Gnuchess 

 References:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2015-10/msg00002.html
http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/chess?revision=134&view=revision
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/13/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/14/12
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