---
id: CVE-2023-24291
title: >-
  Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 was discovered to contain a
  buffer overflow via the record length parameter.
summary: >-
  Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 was discovered to contain a
  buffer overflow via the record length parameter.
severity: low
cvss: 2.9
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'
cwe:
  - CWE-120
vendor: Simon Tatham
product: Portable Puzzle Collection
affected:
  - portable_puzzle_collection < 20230116.5782e29
published: '2026-09-14'
updated: '2026-09-22'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-22T20:00:03.713'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24291'
references:
  - url: 'https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1028986'
    label: cve@mitre.org
  - url: >-
      https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/puzzles.git;a=commit;h=e5717d1ba2184eb6e38b4e2a9d29dc4704aeef30
    label: cve@mitre.org
  - url: >-
      https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-24291.json
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-24291'
  - url: 'https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24291'
tags:
  - nvd
  - cve.org
  - csaf
  - vex
  - red-hat
epss: 0.00121
epssPercentile: 0.01671
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: partial
  timestamp: '2026-09-14T14:56:33.135044Z'
ingestedAt: '2026-09-14T15:23:07.466Z'
---

## Overview

Portable Puzzle Collection before 20230116.5782e29 was discovered to contain a buffer overflow via the record length parameter.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.

## Vendor advisories

- **Red Hat VEX** · updated 2026-09-14 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2023/cve-2023-24291.json)