CVE-2017-11113 - In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_e

CVE-2017-11113

Summary

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	5.0 (as of 06-05-2019 - 15:00)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-476

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	LOW	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

gentoo	GLSA-201804-13
misc	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691

Last major update

06-05-2019 - 15:00

Published

08-07-2017 - 17:29

Last modified

06-05-2019 - 15:00