VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-13728
A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.86%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- 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
- 3.86% probability · 90th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-835
- Affected
- invisible-island/ncurses
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484274Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- 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
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484274Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- 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
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.