PT-2017-11437

CVE-2017-10685

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Published

2017-06-29

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Updated

2022-05-26

Description by

CVSS 3.1
9.8
Critical
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses version 6.0
Description The issue is related to a format string vulnerability in the fmt entry function. This vulnerability can be exploited with a crafted input, potentially leading to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.
Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-10685
MGASA-2018-0001
MGASA-2018-0002
OPENSUSE-SU-2017_1882-1
SUSE-SU-2017:1790-1
SUSE-SU-2017:1815-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2075-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2076-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1
SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1
USN-5448-1
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