Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
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- published29 Aug 2017
- disclosed29 Aug 2017
Introduced: 29 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13729 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 ncurses to version 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-13729
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13729
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13729
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484276
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E