CVE-2017-11112

Summary

CVECVE-2017-11112
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-07-08 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-21 10:29:00 UTC
DescriptionIn ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnu Ncurses 6.0 All All All
Application Gnu Ncurses 6.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201804-13) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
1464686 – Illegal address access in append_acs function in ncurses tool with latest verison(6.0) MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710281 Gentoo Linux ncurses Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201804-13)
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