The patch below addresses a buffer overflow related to "nethack -s".

*** nethack-3.4.0/src/topten.c.orig	Mon Feb  4 08:06:07 2002
--- nethack-3.4.0/src/topten.c	Mon Feb 10 10:48:55 2003
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*** 856,861 ****
--- 856,867 ----
  	    else {
  		if (playerct > 1) Strcat(pbuf, "any of ");
  		for (i = 0; i < playerct; i++) {
+ 		    /* stop printing players if there are too many to fit */
+ 		    if (strlen(pbuf) + strlen(players[i]) + 2 >= BUFSZ) {
+ 			if (strlen(pbuf) < BUFSZ-4) Strcat(pbuf, "...");
+ 			else Strcpy(pbuf+strlen(pbuf)-4, "...");
+ 			break;
+ 		    }
  		    Strcat(pbuf, players[i]);
  		    if (i < playerct-1) {
  			if (players[i][0] == '-' &&