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- Core Bugs (common to all systems)
- Windows-only bugs
- Build-from-source issues (all platforms)
- Spoiler bugs
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Spoilers are bugs that merely reading about may spoil your enjoyment of the
game or give away answers to puzzles that should be solved. They are on
a different page to keep you from seeing them by accident in the main lists.
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Bugs Lists
| ID
| Status
| Description
| Additional Info
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| C343-21
| Open
| Pets can be pulled through closed doors with a leash.
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| C343-38
| Open
| Dismounting or kicking a monster that jumps may result in landing on the wrong side of a wall.
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| C343-370
| Open
| Travel (_) command can get stuck trying to plot a path past an interesting dungeon feature, for example, a trap or fountain.
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| C361-5
| Help
| When getting disconnected from a game running via telnet or ssh, the game may go into an infinite loop instead of aborting.
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| C364-1
| fixed
| Game may crash if a monster looks at certain tins.
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| C364-2
| fixed
| Hero can have a chain but no iron ball in rare cases.
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| C364-3
| fixed
| Extremely long value for the MENUCOLOR configuration file option
can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or remote code
execution/privilege escalation.
CVE-2020-5212
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| C364-4
| fixed
| Too long value for the SYMBOL configuration file option can cause
a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege
escalation.
CVE-2020-5213
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| C364-5
| fixed
| Invalid extended command in value for the AUTOCOMPLETE configuration
file option can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or
remote code execution/privilege escalation.
CVE-2020-5211
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| C364-6
| fixed
| Detecting an unknown configuration file option can cause a buffer
overflow resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege
escalation.
CVE-2020-5214
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| C364-7
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| Invalid argument to the -w command line option can cause a buffer overflow
resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege escalation.
CVE-2020-5210
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| C364-8
| fixed
| Unknown options starting with -de and -i can cause a buffer overflow
resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege escalation.
CVE-2020-5209
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| (related spoiler bugs)
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| ID
| Status
| Description
| Additional Info
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| W364-1
| fixed
| Using tiles_fit_to_screen (old fit_to_screen) may cause NetHackW to crash on launch.
| This bug is fixed in the 3.6.4 binaries re-released 21-Dec-2019.
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| W364-2
| fixed
| Game fails to start if username contains characters not usable in filenames.
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| ID
| Status
| Description
| Additional Info
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| S364-1
| Open
| tabexpand() can go into an infinite loop when compiled with clang 8.0.0 (MacOS
clang version 11) and -Os. This is not an issue for the source as distributed.
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| S364-2
| fixed
| MSBUILD fails if there are spaces in directory names.
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Bug Status Key
| State | Meaning |
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| Open | The bug is unresolved, but we know what we need to about it. |
| Not a bug | Sometimes people think this is a bug, but they're wrong. |
| fixed | The bug will be fixed in the next release.. |
| Fixed | The bug will be fixed in a future release. |
| Help | We don't know what is causing this - if you see it, please send a detailed bug report. Thanks! |
| Superseded | See another entry for information on this bug. |
Bugs lists for previous versions
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