CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-11113
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-08
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 Third Party Advisory