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CVE-2019-15546: Format string vulnerabilities in pancurses

August 25, 2021

An issue was discovered in the pancurses crate through 0.16.1 for Rust. printw and mvprintw have format string vulnerabilities.

References

  • github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-m57c-4vvx-gjgq
  • github.com/ihalila/pancurses
  • github.com/ihalila/pancurses/issues/66
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15546
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0005.html

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Affected versions

All versions up to 0.16.1

Solution

Unfortunately, there is no solution available yet.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-134: Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

Source file

cargo/pancurses/CVE-2019-15546.yml

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