Bug 1473312 (CVE-2017-10685) - CVE-2017-10685 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function
Summary: CVE-2017-10685 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string v...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1473302
Alias: CVE-2017-10685
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2017-07-20 12:57 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2022-06-02 04:59 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: ncurses 6.0-20170701
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Last Closed: 2017-07-20 12:59:10 UTC
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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.
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