Alpine: multiple libformw packages, multiple ncurses packages: security update to 6.0-r7 (deprecated)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400864

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2017-10684)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 400864

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 8/16/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10684

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/19/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10684

Detections

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