CVE-2017-13730Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ncurses

Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 26

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
ncurses vulnerabilities2022-05-26
GHSA
GHSA-gppm-cv87-9w2v: There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic2022-05-13
OSV
CVE-2017-13730: There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic2017-08-29
CVEList
CVE-2017-13730: There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic2017-08-29

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities2022-05-26
Red Hat
ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source()2017-08-23
Debian
CVE-2017-13730: ncurses - There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in pr...2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-13730 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source()2017-09-06
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
CVE-2017-13730 — GNU Ncurses vulnerability | cvebase