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Bug 625830 (CVE-2017-10684, CVE-2017-10685) - <sys-libs/ncurses-6.1: Multiple vulnerabilities
Summary: <sys-libs/ncurses-6.1: Multiple vulnerabilities
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2017-10684, CVE-2017-10685
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
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Whiteboard: A1 [glsa+ cve]
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Depends on: CVE-2017-16879 648114
Blocks:
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Reported: 2017-07-21 08:31 UTC by Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak)
Modified: 2018-04-17 18:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak) 2017-07-21 08:31:59 UTC 
CVE-2017-10684 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10684)

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:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1473302

Upstream patch:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2017-07/msg00001.html
Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2017-10-23 17:55:21 UTC 
CVE-2017-10685 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-10685):
  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.
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2018-04-17 18:19:57 UTC 
This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201804-13 at https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
by GLSA coordinator Aaron Bauman (b-man).