In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-2750 In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5448-1 ncurses vulnerabilities
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-05T17:57:57.943Z

Reserved: 2017-07-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-11113

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-07-08T17:29:00.747

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-11113

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-06-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-11113 - Bugzilla

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