PT-2017-13050 · Ncurses+2 · Ncurses+2

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2022-05-26 · CVE-2017-13729

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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 illegal address access in the nc save str function in alloc entry.c. This can lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, update to a version that fixes the illegal address access issue in the nc save str function to prevent remote denial of service attacks.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13729

MGASA-2018-0002

SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0120-1

SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1

USN-5448-1

Affected Products

Suse

Ubuntu

Ncurses

References · 72

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484276 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13728 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729 · Vendor Advisory
• 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-2017-13731 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13733 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13728 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13729 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13730 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13729 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13729 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13729 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13732 · Security Note