CVE-2017-11112

HIGH

ncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Terminfo Data Parsing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In 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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Issue Tracking x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0036
EPSS Percentile 58.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/ncurses 6.0
Published Jul 08, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026