CVE-2019-15767

HIGH 7.8CVE-2019-15767 · Published 29/08/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2019-15767 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability affecting chess (gnu).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 73.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chess gnu	`= 6.2.5`	No fix yet

In GNU Chess 6.2.5, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the cmd_load function in frontend/cmd.cc via a crafted chess position in an EPD file.

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