VDB-403388 · CVE-2023-24287 · EUVD-2023-60645

Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle Collection buffer overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle Collection. It has been declared as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to buffer overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2023-24287. The attack must be carried out locally. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle Collection (version now known). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-120. The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer, leading to a buffer overflow. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the "M" command.

The advisory is shared for download at bugs.debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-24287 since 01/23/2023. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Applying the patch 20230116.5782e29 is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-60645). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

Simon Tatham

Name

Portable Puzzle Collection

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.8
VulDB Temp Score: 4.6
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CNA Base Score: 2.9
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Buffer overflow
CWE: CWE-120 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Patch
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Patch: 20230116.5782e29

Timelineinfo

01/23/2023 CVE reserved
09/14/2026 +1329 days Advisory disclosed
09/14/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/14/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugs.debian.org
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-24287 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2023-24287
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-403388
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/14/2026 06:45
Updated: 09/14/2026 09:49
Changes: 09/14/2026 06:45 (61), 09/14/2026 09:49 (1)
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