CVE-2017-13734
MEDIUMncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Illegal Address Access in _nc_safe_strcat
Title source: llmDescription
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0029
EPSS Percentile
52.4%
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