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CVE-2017-10685

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-29 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: CWE-134

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.

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: 6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464692
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464692
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

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