Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8972

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-23 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:36:31
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.