CVE-2017-13734 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Ncurses
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.3%
top 47.57%
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 _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.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
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
3GHSA▶
GHSA-86pg-q9vr-g8xh: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings↗2022-05-14
CVEList▶
CVE-2017-13734: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings↗2017-08-29
OSV▶
CVE-2017-13734: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings↗2017-08-29