CVE-2019-15767: GNU Chess

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Chess: version 6.2.5 only

Published 2019-08-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.