Remote Denial of Service Risk in ncurses by GNU
CVE-2017-13734

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gnu
Status
Ncurses
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 August 2017

Summary

The vulnerability in the _nc_safe_strcat function of ncurses 6.0 can be exploited to trigger an illegal address access, potentially leading to a remote denial of service scenario. This flaw allows attackers to disrupt service availability by sending specially crafted inputs.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
x_refsource_MISC

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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