Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20170827-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NCURSES-367727
  • published29 Aug 2017
  • disclosed29 Aug 2017

Introduced: 29 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13732  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable ncurses to version 6.0+20170827-1 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:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.