Bug 625830 (CVE-2017-10684, CVE-2017-10685)

Summary:	<sys-libs/ncurses-6.1: Multiple vulnerabilities
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Aleksandr Wagner (Kivak) <alwag>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	base-system, sudormrfhalt
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	A1 [glsa+ cve]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	639706, 648114
Bug Blocks:

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).