CVE-2017-13734

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 6.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-08-29

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Ncurses (Invisible-island)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13