Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
Threat Intelligence
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- published29 Aug 2017
- disclosed29 Aug 2017
Introduced: 29 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13734 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 ncurses to version 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.