CVE-2017-10684: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Jun 29 2017(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| GNU ncurses | =6.0 |
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Reference Links
- 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://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- collector/nvd-index
- vendor/gnu
- canonical/gnu ncurses
- version/gnu ncurses/6.0