Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in ncurses by GNU
CVE-2017-11112

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Gnu
Status
Ncurses
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 July 2017

What is CVE-2017-11112?

In the ncurses 6.0 library, a vulnerability in the append_acs function located in the tinfo/parse_entry.c file could be exploited to cause a remote denial of service. This occurs when processing untrusted terminfo data, potentially allowing attackers to crash applications relying on the terminfo library.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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