CVE-2017-11113 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2017-07-08

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: 2.4% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
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	USN-5448-1	ncurses vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02388.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11113
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11113

History

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Subscriptions

Gnu Ncurses

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-07-08T17:00:00.000Z

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

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

Link: CVE-2017-11113

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

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

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-11113

Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-11113 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference

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