{"action":"Upgrade gnuchess to 6.2.4-1 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"6.2.4-1","introduced":"0"}],"component":"gnuchess","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:13","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["6.2.4-1"],"id":"tcs_01M5NBCRQAB5F12Q2FBPFPY3V3","modified_at":"2026-09-09T07:01:28.224015221Z","published_at":"2017-01-23T21:59:00.847Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8972","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8972"],"severity":{"label":"critical","score":9.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8972#Debian:13/gnuchess","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8972"}],"summary":"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 inpu"}