Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.36% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NCURSES-367833
- published 22 Nov 2017
- disclosed 22 Nov 2017
Introduced: 22 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-16879 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
ncurses
to version 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses
package and not the ncurses
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.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.