CVE-2017-11112

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11112
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-11112.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-11112
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-07-08T17:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T06:51:21.077866Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the appendacs function of tinfo/parseentry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mirror/ncurses

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mirror/ncurses
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected

Affected versions

v4.*

v4.1
v4.2

v5.*

v5.0
v5.1
v5.2
v5.3
v5.4
v5.5
v5.6
v5.7
v5.8
v5.9

v6.*

v6.0