CVE-2017-13734 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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

Published: 2017-08-29

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

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

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-5251	There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
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 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 0.0029.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13734
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-13734

History

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Subscriptions

Gnu Ncurses

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-08-29T06:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:05:19.938Z

Reserved: 2017-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-13734

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-08-29T06:29:00.517

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

Link: CVE-2017-13734

Redhat

Severity : Low

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

Links: CVE-2017-13734 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-119

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