NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.22% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1604-NCURSES-367763
- published 8 Jul 2017
- disclosed 8 Jul 2017
Introduced: 8 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11113 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04
ncurses
to version 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+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:16.04
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.