PT-2017-13049 · Ncurses+2 · Ncurses+2

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2022-05-26 · CVE-2017-13728

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses version 6.0

Description The issue is related to an infinite loop in the next char function in comp scan.c, which is connected to libtic. A specially crafted input can cause a remote denial of service attack.

Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, consider applying a patch to fix the infinite loop in the next char function to prevent remote denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13728

MGASA-2018-0002

SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1

SUSE-SU-2017_3183-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0120-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0120-1

SUSE-SU-2018_0284-1

USN-5448-1

Affected Products

Suse

Ubuntu

Ncurses

References · 84

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484274 · Exploit
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13728 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-5448-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13730 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13728 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13731 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13728 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11112 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10685 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-11113 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0002.html · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13732 · Vendor Advisory