PT-2017-13052

CVE-2017-13730

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Published

2017-08-29

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Updated

2022-05-26

Description by

CVSS 3.1
6.5
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses version 6.0
Description The issue is related to an illegal address access in the nc read entry source() function, located in progs/tic.c, which could potentially lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Related identifiers
CVE-2017-13730
MGASA-2018-0002
SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1
SUSE-SU-2018:0120-1
SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1
USN-5448-1
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