CVE-2017-10685

Publication date 29 June 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ncurses	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Not affected
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored
	17.04 zesty	Ignored
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

mdeslaur

Red Hat considers this issue as a duplicate of CVE-2017-10684.

ccdm94

fix availabe in patch 20170701 for ncurses 6.0.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H