CVE-2017-13728

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses version 6.0

Description The issue is related to an infinite loop in the next char function in comp scan.c, which is connected to libtic. A specially crafted input can cause a remote denial of service attack.

Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, consider applying a patch to fix the infinite loop in the next char function to prevent remote denial of service attacks.