CVE-2017-13728 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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 Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00307.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Gnu	Ncurses

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5245	There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Ubuntu USN	USN-5448-1	ncurses vulnerabilities

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484274
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13728
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13728

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-29T06:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:20.018Z

Reserved: 2017-08-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-13728

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-29T06:29:00.297

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

Link: CVE-2017-13728

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-08-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-13728 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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