CVE-2017-10685

CWE-134 — Uncontrolled Format String9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICAL
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.77%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Ncurses
Timeline
PublishedJun 29
Latest updateMay 26

Description

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 vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianncurses< 6.0+20170701-1+3
▶NVDgnu/ncurses6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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GHSA
GHSA-67w6-7r3q-87w7: In ncurses 6↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-10685: In ncurses 6↗2017-06-29
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OSV
CVE-2017-10685: In ncurses 6↗2017-06-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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Red Hat
ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function↗2017-06-24
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Debian
CVE-2017-10685: ncurses - In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-10685 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function↗2017-07-20
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CVE-2017-10685 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.8) | In ncurses 6.0 | cvebase.io