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Vulnerable: version 6.2.9nb1 is affected by 2 known vulnerabilities. See below.

games/gnuchess 6.2.9nb1 NetBSD

GNU chess engine

System
NetBSD
Repository
pkgsrc
Maintainer
[email protected]
Last update
Commit
14df1eee27
License
gnu-gpl-v3
Categories
games
Package size
210.6 KiB, 677.4 KiB installed

Description

Gnuchess plays a game of chess against the user or it plays against itself.

Gnuchess is an updated version of the GNU chess playing program. It has a simple alpha-numeric board display or can be run with the xboard program under X-windows. It can use an opening book provided by one of gnuchess-book-* packages.

In the other systems

SystemPortVersion
NetBSDgames/gnuchess6.2.9nb1
FreeBSDgames/gnuchess6.3.0
OpenBSDgames/gnuchess6.2.11v0
DragonFlygames/gnuchess6.2.9_1
MidnightBSDgames/gnuchess6.3.0
HardenedBSDgames/gnuchess6.3.0
GhostBSDgames/gnuchess6.3.0

Install

Binary package:

pkgin install gnuchess

From pkgsrc:

cd /usr/pkgsrc/games/gnuchess && make install clean

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

RepositoryVersion
NetBSD 10.1 x86_646.2.9nb1
NetBSD 10.1 aarch646.2.9
SmartOS / illumos x86_646.3.0
macOS 15 arm646.3.0

Dependencies

Run dependencies 1

Known vulnerabilities 2

Commit history 3

DateCommitCreditsLog message
14df1eee27 ktnb gnuchess: fixed endless loop when building games/gnuchess-book
ffa75d8f31 ktnb gnuchess: update to 3.6.0
- Look for gnuchess.ini in XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config/. - Dynamically configure gnuchess.ini from gnuchess.ini.in. - Disable engine book on 'book off'. - Improve style of some help messages. - More graceful program termination if book does not exist. - Bug fix in (epd)load command. - Fix potential buffer overflows in the pipes read/write.
65b9820acc wiz gnuchess: fix ctype(3) problems
Bump PKGREVISION. Fixes gnuchess-book build on my system.