Ncurses vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Ncurses is made by Gnu. We track 27 published vulnerabilities in it, across 20 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Ncurses, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Ncurses's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Ncurses flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 4.9%CVE-2017-10684Critical
In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function.
- 4.3%CVE-2017-10685Critical
In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function.
- 3.9%CVE-2017-13728High
There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic.
- 3.2%CVE-2021-39537High
An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1.
- 2.9%CVE-2017-13732Medium
There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- 2.9%CVE-2017-13729Medium
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0.
- 2.9%CVE-2017-13731Medium
There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- 2.9%CVE-2017-13730Medium
There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- 2.8%CVE-2017-13733Medium
There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- 2.4%CVE-2017-16879High
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...
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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.
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We track 27 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Ncurses, across 20 versions.
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