NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20170701-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.37% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-NCURSES-5690116
  • published8 Jul 2017
  • disclosed8 Jul 2017

Introduced: 8 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11113  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:13 ncurses to version 6.0+20170701-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 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.