CVE-2017-13732

MEDIUM

ncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Illegal Address Access in dump_uses()

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484287

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0048
EPSS Percentile 65.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
gnu/ncurses 6.0
Published Aug 29, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026