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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-11112

It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

HIGH 7.5EPSS 2.21%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.21%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

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.

CVSS 3.0
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.21% probability · 82th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-20
Affected
invisible-island/ncurses
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.