Improper Input Validation Affecting ncurses package, versions <5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-NCURSES-367728
  • published8 Jul 2017
  • disclosed8 Jul 2017

Introduced: 8 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11112  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 ncurses to version 5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs 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.