{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16879 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2017-16879 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2017-16879 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2017-16879 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 22 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16879 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16879/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16879/index.md)","id":"CVE-2017-16879","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16879/index.md","name":"CVE-2017-16879","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2017-16879","CLEANSTART-2026-LL25077","DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16879","GHSA-r8vx-h3vx-6wh2","UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16879"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"ncurses library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Attackers can cause crashes or execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the ncurses library.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"ncurses","vendor":"invisible-island"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-16879","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2017"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"filp whoops Cross-site Scripting vulnerability","id":"CVE-2017-16880"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-16878"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2017-11-22","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10684","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-06-29"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-10685","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-06-29"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2023-29491","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-04-14"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-13728","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-08-29"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-11112","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-08"},{"cvss_score":7.5,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-11113","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-07-08"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Attackers can cause crashes or execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file due to a stack-based buffer overflow in the ncurses library.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-16879/"}