CVE-2017-11112

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.73%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Ncurses
Timeline
PublishedJul 8
Latest updateMay 26

Description

In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs 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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Debianncurses< 6.0+20170701-1+3
▶NVDgnu/ncurses6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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GHSA
GHSA-j828-53qv-9v8f: In ncurses 6↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2017-11112: In ncurses 6↗2017-07-08
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OSV
CVE-2017-11112: In ncurses 6↗2017-07-08
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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Red Hat
ncurses: Illegal address access in append_acs function↗2017-06-24
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Debian
CVE-2017-11112: ncurses - In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_ac...↗2017
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11112 ncurses: Illegal address access in append_acs function↗2017-07-20
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CVE-2017-11112 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | In ncurses 6.0 | cvebase.io