PT-2017-13056 · Ncurses+2 · Ncurses+2

Published 2017-08-29 · Updated 2022-05-26 · CVE-2017-13734

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 safe strcat function, located in strings.c, which can lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Recommendations For ncurses version 6.0, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-13734

SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1

USN-5448-1

Affected Products

Suse

Ubuntu

Ncurses

References · 57

• 🔥 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-13734 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13728 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-13734 · 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://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13734 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13730 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13729 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13732 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10684 · Vendor Advisory