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  • Committer: Steve Beattie
  • Date: 2019-02-19 06:18:27 UTC
  • Revision ID: sbeattie@ubuntu.com-20190219061827-oh57fzcfc1u9dlfk
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Candidate: CVE-2017-16879
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PublicDate: 2017-11-22
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References:
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 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16879
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 http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20171125
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 http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145045/GNU-ncurses-6.0-tic-Denial-Of-Service.html
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Description:
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 Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in
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 tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of
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 service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a
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 crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic.
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Ubuntu-Description:
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Notes:
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 sarnold> The Debian bug suggests tic(1) is the only caller, in which case
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  this would be a 'low' bug; I couldn't quickly verify this claim.
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Bugs:
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 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=882620
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Priority: negligible
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Discovered-by:
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Assigned-to:
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Patches_ncurses:
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upstream_ncurses: released (6.0+20171125-1)
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precise/esm_ncurses: needs-triage
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trusty_ncurses: needs-triage
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xenial_ncurses: needs-triage
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zesty_ncurses: ignored (reached end-of-life)
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artful_ncurses: needs-triage
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bionic_ncurses: needs-triage
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devel_ncurses: needs-triage