{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8972","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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:45:33Z","published":"2017-01-23T21:59:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-8972"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8972"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-chess/2015-10/msg00002.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc?view=rev&root=chess&revision=134"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8972"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gnuchess","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/gnuchess@6.2.2-1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["6.2.1-1","6.2.2-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"gnuchess","binary_version":"6.2.2-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8972.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"negligible"}]}