CVE-2017-13734

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-13734
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-08-29 06:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-21 10:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThere 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

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
1484291 – There is an illegal address access in strings.c of libncurses. MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671124 EulerOS Security Update for ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2634)
  • 710281 Gentoo Linux ncurses Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201804-13)
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