CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-13734
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-07-23
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 security.gentoo.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 security.gentoo.org