CVE-2017-13731

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13731
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13731.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-13731
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-08-29T06:29:00.423Z
Modified
2025-11-14T05:02:34.632626Z
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 function postprocesstermcap() in parseentry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
ed3eb506e9a8e6ea871a2eb5818e19ba36f3f277

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.1
v4.2

v5.*

v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9

v6.*

v6.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-13731.json"