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Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-libs package, versions *

0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.09% (39th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
3.3 low

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-NCURSESLIBS-1974521
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 23 Aug 2017
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Introduced: 23 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-13734 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 ncurses-libs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-libs package and not the ncurses-libs package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.