CVE-2017-16879

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16879
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16879.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16879
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-11-22T22:29:00.223Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:40:59.756990085Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ncwriteentry function in tinfo/writeentry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ed3eb506e9a8e6ea871a2eb5818e19ba36f3f277
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "6.0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v4.*
v4.1
v4.2
v5.*
v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9
v6.*
v6.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16879.json"