CVE-2017-13734: 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.

PriorityP427medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRNUIRSUCNINAH

EPSS

2.13%

79.9th percentile

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.

Affected

8 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	ncurses	< ncurses 6.0+20170827-1 (bookworm)	ncurses 6.0+20170827-1 (bookworm)
gnu	ncurses	—	—
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170827-1	6.0+20170827-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170827-1	6.0+20170827-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170827-1	6.0+20170827-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20170827-1	6.0+20170827-1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1	5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
gnu	ncurses	>= 0 < 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1	6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv9.8CRITICAL

vendor_ubuntu9.8CRITICAL

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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