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CVE-2017-10685

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
0.04222
Risk score
40.68
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2017-06-29
Modified
2024-08-05
First seen
2026-08-05
Aliases
EUVD-2017-2332, GHSA-67W6-7R3Q-87W7
Products
invisible-island:ncurses, n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
nvd CVE-2017-10685
euvd EUVD-2017-2332

Description

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.

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