CVE-2020-14983

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2020-14983 · Published 22/06/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2020-14983 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting chocolate doom (chocolate-doom), crispy doom (chocolate-doom).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.7%, higher than 86.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
chocolate doom chocolate-doom	`= 3.0.0`	No fix yet
crispy doom chocolate-doom	`= 5.8.0`	No fix yet

Description

The server in Chocolate Doom 3.0.0 and Crispy Doom 5.8.0 doesn't validate the user-controlled num_players value, leading to a buffer overflow. A malicious user can overwrite the server's stack.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00002.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00007.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00012.html · Mailing List
chocolate-doom/chocolate-doom · Exploit

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