Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-libs package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.22% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSESLIBS-1674287
- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 29 Jun 2017
Introduced: 29 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-10684 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
ncurses-libs
to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1302
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-libs
package and not the ncurses-libs
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10684
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E