Vulmon Recent Vulnerabilities Research Posts Trends Blog About Contact
6.8
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-16879

Published: 22/11/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 606
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Subscribe to Gnu

Vulnerability Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic.

Vulnerability Trend

Vulnerable Product Search on Vulmon Subscribe to Product

gnu ncurses 6.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: [CVE-2017-16879] ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow
Debian Bug report logs - #882620 [CVE-2017-16879] ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow Package: ncurses; Maintainer for ncurses is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Luciano Bello <luciano@debianorg> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 22:12:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, jessie, stretch, upstream F ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: USN-5477-1: ncurses vulnerabilities
Several security issues were fixed in ncurses ...
Red Hat: CVE-2017-16879
Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entryc in ncurses 60 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic ...

References

CWE-787http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145045/GNU-ncurses-6.0-tic-Denial-Of-Service.htmlhttp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20171125https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=57695https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Ehttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882620https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5477-1https://nvd.nist.gov
CVSSv2
CVSSv2
CVSSv3
VMScore
Recommendations:
IMAPCVE-2024-4367server-side request forgeryinformation disclosureCVE-2024-34342CVE-2024-4281CVE-2024-3507CVE-2024-25560CVE-2024-34574
Vulnerability Notification Service
You don’t have to wait for vulnerability scanning results
Get Started

Vulmon Search

Vulmon Search is a vulnerability search engine. It gives comprehensive vulnerability information through a very simple user interface.

About

Home Recent Vulnerabilities Research Posts Trends Blog About Contact

Products

Vulmon Search Vulmon Research Vulmon Alerts Vulmap

Connect

Twitter Reddit Linkedin Facebook