CVE-2023-24283 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 23.01.2023 Published: 14.09.2026 Updated: 14.09.2026

Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow which allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted save file.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 2.9

Attack Vector	Local	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	Low

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Simon Tatham
Product	Portable Puzzle Collection
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 20230116.5782e29 (excl.)

References

https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=commit;h=c84af670b52f09e9e47587584c0559c508d4a37d
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028986

Problem Types

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') CWE