ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734

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Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-13734
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734
Upstream
Published
2017-08-29T06:29:00.517Z
Modified
2025-11-14T04:16:37.997900Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

There is an illegal address access in the ncsafe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.3 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0_p20170701-r0

Affected versions

5.*

5.6-r0
5.7-r0
5.7-r1
5.7-r2
5.7-r3
5.7-r4
5.8-r0
5.8-r1
5.8-r2
5.9-r0
5.9-r1
5.9-r2
5.9-r3
5.9-r4

6.*

6.0-r0
6.0-r1
6.0-r2
6.0-r3
6.0-r4
6.0-r5
6.0-r6
6.0-r7

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734.json"

Alpine:v3.4 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0_p20170701-r0

Affected versions

5.*

5.6-r0
5.7-r0
5.7-r1
5.7-r2
5.7-r3
5.7-r4
5.8-r0
5.8-r1
5.8-r2
5.9-r0
5.9-r1
5.9-r2
5.9-r3
5.9-r4

6.*

6.0-r0
6.0-r1
6.0-r2
6.0-r3
6.0-r4
6.0-r5
6.0-r6
6.0-r7
6.0-r8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734.json"

Alpine:v3.5 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0_p20170701-r0

Affected versions

5.*

5.6-r0
5.7-r0
5.7-r1
5.7-r2
5.7-r3
5.7-r4
5.8-r0
5.8-r1
5.8-r2
5.9-r0
5.9-r1
5.9-r2
5.9-r3
5.9-r4

6.*

6.0-r0
6.0-r1
6.0-r2
6.0-r3
6.0-r4
6.0-r5
6.0-r6
6.0-r7
6.0-r8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734.json"

Alpine:v3.6 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0_p20170930-r0

Affected versions

5.*

5.6-r0
5.7-r0
5.7-r1
5.7-r2
5.7-r3
5.7-r4
5.8-r0
5.8-r1
5.8-r2
5.9-r0
5.9-r1
5.9-r2
5.9-r3
5.9-r4

6.*

6.0-r0
6.0-r1
6.0-r2
6.0-r3
6.0-r4
6.0-r5
6.0-r6
6.0-r7
6.0-r8

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734.json"