There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat... · CVE-2017-13734 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Aug 29, 2017

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022

Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Severity

Moderate

6.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H