ncurses is vulnerable to buffer overflow. Due to a flaw in ncurses, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.
CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
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ncurses:3.3 | eq | 6.0-r6 | |
ncurses:3.3 | eq | 6.0_p20170701-r0 | |
ncurses:3.5 | eq | 6.0_p20171125-r1 | |
ncurses:3.6 | eq | 6.0_p20171125-r1 |
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464687
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security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13