Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20170708-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.22% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NCURSES-367701
  • published29 Jun 2017
  • disclosed29 Jun 2017

Introduced: 29 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-10684  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ncurses to version 6.0+20170708-1 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:unstable 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.