NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses-base package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.22% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-NCURSESBASE-1973112
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 24 Jun 2017
Introduced: 24 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-11113 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7 ncurses-base.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-base package and not the ncurses-base package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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.