Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16879

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-11-22 22:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-05 20:35:21

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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