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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
- 0.15.1-1build1, 0.16.1-2build1, 0.16.1-3, 0.16.1-5, 0.16.1-6, 1.0+ds-1, 1.0-1, 1.0-1build1, 1.0-1build2
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14938
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 00:33 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:UBUNTU-CVE-2020-14938
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Complete source record
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