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CVE-2019-15547: Mishandling of format strings in ncurses

August 25, 2021 (updated June 13, 2023)

ncurses exposes functions from the ncurses library which:

  • Pass buffers without length to C functions that may write an arbitrary amount of data, leading to a buffer overflow. (instr, mvwinstr, etc)
  • Passes rust &str to strings expecting C format arguments, allowing hostile input to execute a format string attack, which trivially allows writing arbitrary data to stack memory (functions in the printw family).

References

  • github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-32v7-ghpr-c8hg
  • github.com/jeaye/ncurses-rs
  • github.com/jeaye/ncurses-rs/issues/172
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15547
  • rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html

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Affected versions

All versions up to 5.101.0

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/ncurses/CVE-2019-15547.yml

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