CVE-2017-16879

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

2.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 83.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-07-23.

Red Hat severity

Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2017-11-22 22:00Z8 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 20:35Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2017-11-17

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

3d380c8a1b72cc729072a4cd9915ef151709bc857e7a0a02739f3d88a7bd33a7

• packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/145045/GNU-ncurses-6.0-tic-Denial-Of-Service.htmlx_refsource_MISC
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201804-13https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• invisible-island.nethttp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20171125x_refsource_CONFIRM
• tools.cisco.comhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/viewAlert.x?alertId=57695x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.apache.org[bookkeeper-issues] 20210628 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.apache.org[bookkeeper-issues] 20210629 [GitHub] [bookkeeper] padma81 opened a new issue #2746: Security Vulnerabilities in CentOS 7 image, Upgrade image to CentOS 8https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Emailing-listx_refsource_MLIST