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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-10684: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2019-1302)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-10684: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2019-1302)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/29/2017
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-c-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-term

References

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