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CVE-2017-11112 (GCVE-0-2017-11112)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-07-08 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:57
VLAI
Summary
In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2017-07-08 00:00
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