Bug 1473312 (CVE-2017-10685)

Summary:	CVE-2017-10685 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	mlichvar, sardella
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-20 12:57:40 UTC

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.

Bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464692

Upstream patch:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2017-07/msg00001.html

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-20 12:59:10 UTC

This issue is duplicate of CVE-2017-10684.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1473302 ***

Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-07-20 15:18:40 UTC

Statement:

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