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CVE-2017-16879

7.8 highEPSS 2.4%

High (7.8) in invisible-island ncurses. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-787
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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