Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-libs package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.22% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-NCURSESLIBS-1977500
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 23 Aug 2017
Introduced: 23 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13733 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13733
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484290
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4@%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E