Marked for autoremoval on 07 October: #1097450high
Version 3.6.7-1 of nethack is marked for autoremoval from testing on Tue 07 Oct 2025. It is affected by #1097450. The removal of nethack will also cause the removal of (transitive) reverse dependency: hearse. You should try to prevent the removal by fixing these RC bugs.
CVE-2023-24809:
NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Starting with version 3.6.2 and prior to version 3.6.7, illegal input to the "C" (call) command can cause a buffer overflow and crash the NetHack process. This vulnerability may be a security issue for systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and for shared systems. For all systems, it may result in a process crash. This issue is resolved in NetHack 3.6.7. There are no known workarounds.
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