CVE-2017-10684

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-10684
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-10684.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-10684
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-06-29T23:29:00.223Z
Modified
2026-07-08T23:28:03.274083Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
ed3eb506e9a8e6ea871a2eb5818e19ba36f3f277
Last affected
ed3eb506e9a8e6ea871a2eb5818e19ba36f3f277
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "6.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

6.*
6.0
v6.*
v6.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-10684.json"