Use of Externally-Controlled Format String Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20170701-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.26% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-NCURSES-1554557
  • published29 Jun 2017
  • disclosed29 Jun 2017

Introduced: 29 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-10685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-134  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 ncurses to version 6.0+20170701-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1