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freedroidrpg — security advisory
An issue was discovered in map.c in FreedroidRPG 1.0rc2. It assumes lengths of data sets read from saved game files. It copies data from a file into a fixed-size heap-allocated buffer without size verification, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- Products
- freedroidrpg
- Affected versions
- 0.10.0+d070110-1, 0.10.1-1, 0.10.2-1, 0.10.3-1, 0.10.3-2, 0.10.3-3, 0.11.1-1, 0.12.1-1, 0.13-1, 0.14.1-1, 0.15.1-1, 0.16.1-1, 0.16.1-2, 0.16.1-3, 0.16.1-4, 0.16.1-5, 0.16.1-6, 0.9.13-1, 0.9.13-2, 1.0~rc2-1
- Fixed versions
- 1.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14938
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 13:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in map.c in FreedroidRPG 1.0rc2. It assumes lengths of data sets read from saved game files. It copies data from a file into a fixed-size heap-allocated buffer without size verification, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14938
freedroidrpg
Fixed versions: 1.0-1
freedroidrpg
Fixed versions: 1.0-1
Complete source record
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