CVEs-PoC/2017/CVE-2017-10685.md

### [CVE-2017-10685](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10685)
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### Description

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.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464692

#### Github
- https://github.com/cloudpassage/jira_halo_issues_sync
- https://github.com/cloudpassage/snow_connector
- https://github.com/yfoelling/yair