CVE-2017-13734

MEDIUM

ncurses 6.0 - Denial of Service via Illegal Address Access in _nc_safe_strcat

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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