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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2017-10685

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CVE-2017-10685

ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function

Published Modified CWE 134
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Photon OS (high), Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.3ncurses6.0-r7
alpine 3.4ncurses6.0-r8
alpine 3.5ncurses6.0-r8
alpine 3.6ncurses6.0-r8
amazon linux 2ncurses, ncurses-base, ncurses-c++-libs and 6 more6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
debian 11ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 12ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 13ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 14ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 7ncursesno fix listed
debian 8ncurses5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1
debian 9ncurses6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
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SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.3ncurses6.0-r7
alpine 3.4ncurses6.0-r8
alpine 3.5ncurses6.0-r8
alpine 3.6ncurses6.0-r8
amazon linux 2ncurses6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-base6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-c++-libs6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-compat-libs6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-debuginfo6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-devel6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-libs6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-static6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
amazon linux 2ncurses-term6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
debian 11ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 12ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 13ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 14ncurses6.0+20170701-1
debian 7ncursesno fix listed
debian 8ncurses5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1
debian 9ncurses6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
echoncurses6.0+20170701-1
Photon OS 1.0ncurses6.0-5.ph1
Photon OS 2.0ncurses6.0-12.ph2
Red Hatncursesno fix listed
Red Hatncurses-baseno fix listed
Red Hatncurses-develno fix listed
Red Hatncurses-libsno fix listed
Red Hatncurses-staticno fix listed
Red Hatncurses-termno fix listed
root.io debian 11rootio-ncurses6.0+20170701-1
root.io debian 12rootio-ncurses6.0+20170701-1
root.io debian 13rootio-ncurses6.0+20170701-1
seal Red Hat 7ncurses5.9-14.20130511.el7_4+sp999
seal Red Hat 7seal-ncurses5.9-14.20130511.el7_4+sp999
ubuntu 14.04-ESMncurses5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMncurses6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1

References

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