CVE-2021-30184

HIGH

GNU Chess 6.2.7 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

GNU Chess 6.2.7 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted PGN (Portable Game Notation) data. This is related to a buffer overflow in the use of a .tmp.epd temporary file in the cmd_pgnload and cmd_pgnreplay functions in frontend/cmd.cc.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00000.html
Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2021-04/msg00001.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202107-28

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0066
EPSS Percentile 71.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-120
Status published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora 32
fedoraproject/fedora 33
fedoraproject/fedora 34
gnu/chess 6.2.7
Published Apr 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026