CVE-2017-13733
MEDIUMncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Illegal Address Access in fmt_entry
Title source: llmDescription
There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function 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
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484290
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Mailing List mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0048
EPSS Percentile
65.3%
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