ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734

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    ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734

    Published: 29 Aug 2017Last Modified: 15 Jun 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-13734

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-13734

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ncurses

    Purl: pkg:apk/alpine/ncurses?arch=source

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6.0_p20170701-r0

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High