{"action":"Upgrade ncurses to 6.0-r8 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"6.0-r8","introduced":"0"}],"component":"ncurses","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.4","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["6.0-r8"],"id":"tcs_01M5N8VCSMC157CCWDWGG0PYY3","modified_at":"2026-06-15T18:23:56.410466733Z","published_at":"2017-06-29T23:29:00.253Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-10685","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-10685"],"severity":{"label":"critical","score":9.8},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2017-10685#Alpine:v3.4/ncurses","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-10685"}],"summary":"In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack."}