CVE-2017-13731

CWE-119 — Buffer Overflow9 documents8 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUM
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Ncurses
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 26

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will 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

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-f89p-gvj2-883g: There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-13731: There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry↗2017-08-29
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OSV
CVE-2017-13731: There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry↗2017-08-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-05-26
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Red Hat
ncurses: Illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap()↗2017-08-23
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Debian
CVE-2017-13731: ncurses - There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in pars...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-13731 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap()↗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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CVE-2017-13731 (MEDIUM CVSS 6.5) | There is an illegal address access | cvebase.io