Remote Denial of Service Risk in Ncurses 6.0 by Vendor Ncurses
CVE-2017-13730

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Ncurses
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 August 2017

Summary

A vulnerability exists in Ncurses 6.0 due to illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() located in progs/tic.c. Exploiting this flaw may allow an attacker to cause a remote denial of service, affecting the availability of the application or service reliant on this library. Users of Ncurses are advised to apply necessary patches and updates to mitigate potential risks from this vulnerability.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484284
x_refsource_MISC
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b49...
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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