Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (39th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1404-NCURSES-367788
- published 29 Aug 2017
- disclosed 29 Aug 2017
Introduced: 29 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-13734 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04
ncurses
to version 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:14.04
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.