CVE-2017-13729

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    CVE-2017-13729

    Published: 29 Aug 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

    References: 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, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484276

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- ed3eb506e9a8e6ea871a2eb5818e19ba36f3f277
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    6.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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