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CVE-2017-16879

Published: 11/22/2017 Last updated: 8/5/2024 Reserved: 11/17/2017

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (6)

bap-llvm clangml conf-mingw-w64-ncurses-i686 conf-mingw-w64-ncurses-x86_64 conf-ncurses curses

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a n/a

References (12)