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CVE-2017-13734 (GCVE-0-2017-13734)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-08-29 06:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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=1484291 x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2017-08-29 00:00
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