CVE-2017-13728 — Infinite Loop in Ncurses

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop9 documents8 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 56.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Ncurses
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 26

Description

There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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

▶Debiangnu/ncurses< 6.0+20170827-1+3
▶NVDgnu/ncurses6.0

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-8qvv-3q23-2876: There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-13728: There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan↗2017-08-29
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OSV
CVE-2017-13728: There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan↗2017-08-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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Red Hat
ncurses: Infinite loop in the next_char function↗2017-08-23
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Debian
CVE-2017-13728: ncurses - There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6....↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-13728 ncurses: Infinite loop in the next_char function↗2017-09-06
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-13728 CVE-2017-13729 CVE-2017-13730 CVE-2017-13731 CVE-2017-13732 CVE-2017-13733 CVE-2017-13734 ncurses: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-09-06
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