CVE-2017-13734Improper 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

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

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-86pg-q9vr-g8xh: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings2022-05-14
CVEList
CVE-2017-13734: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings2017-08-29
OSV
CVE-2017-13734: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings2017-08-29

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities2022-05-26
Red Hat
ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_safe_strcat2017-08-23
Debian
CVE-2017-13734: ncurses - There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c ...2017

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-13734 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_safe_strcat2017-09-06
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-2017-13734 — GNU Ncurses vulnerability | cvebase