CVE-2017-10684

Published: Jun 29, 2017Modified: Jul 23, 2026

9.8

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 5.9

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Invisible Island: Ncurses

Invisible Island

1 product

Ncurses

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Invisible Island Ncurses	Version 6.0

Related CWEs

CWE-119

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (8)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Issue Tracking

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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