CVE-2017-16879

Publication date

2017-11-22 22:00:00

Family

mitre

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.