CVE-2006-1390: Gentoo Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The configuration of NetHack 3.4.3-r1 and earlier, Falcon's Eye 1.9.4a and earlier, and Slash'EM 0.0.760 and earlier on Gentoo Linux allows local users in the games group to modify saved games files to execute arbitrary code via buffer overflows and overwrite arbitrary files via symlink attacks.

Affected products

• Gentoo Linux: version 0.5 only; version 0.7 only; version 1.1a only; version 1.2 only; version 1.4 only

Published 2006-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.