VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-13731
There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.91%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.91%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
- CVSS 3.0
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 2.91% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- invisible-island/ncurses
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484285Exploit, 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=1484285Exploit, 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.