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LIN8-8285 : Security Advisory - ncurses - CVE-2017-16879

Created: Nov 29, 2017    Updated: Dec 31, 2020
Resolved Date: Dec 31, 2020
Found In Version: 8.0.0.23
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16879

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