CVE-2017-13734
N/A
Published: August 29, 2017 at 06:00 AM UTC
Updated: July 23, 2026 at 07:31 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNcurses
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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