CVE-2017-13729 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It 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 Required

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-2017-5246	There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It 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=1484276
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-2017-13729
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13729

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:19.907Z

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

Link: CVE-2017-13729

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-08-29T06:29:00.327

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

Link: CVE-2017-13729

Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-13729 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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