CVE-2017-11112
HIGHncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Terminfo Data Parsing
Title source: llmDescription
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