CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-10684
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-29
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 security.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687 Issue Tracking
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 security.gentoo.org