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CVE-2017-10685 (GCVE-0-2017-10685)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-29 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:41
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464692 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2017-06-29 00:00
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