<p>Upgrade <code>Debian:8</code> <code>ncurses</code> to version 5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1 or higher.</p>

NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses package, versions <5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS 0.22% (61^st percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-NCURSES-367754
published 8 Jul 2017
disclosed 8 Jul 2017

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Introduced: 8 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11113 Open this link in a new tab CWE-476 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 ncurses to version 5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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.