vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-10685: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2019-1302)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jun 29, 2017 | Apr 27, 2020 | Sep 30, 2022 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 29, 2017
Added
Apr 27, 2020
Modified
Sep 30, 2022
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack.
Solutions
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