DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13729
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729
Upstream
Published
2017-08-29T06:29:00.327Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:04:40.460883Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

There is an illegal address access in the ncsavestr function in allocentry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0+20170827-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729.json"

Debian:12 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0+20170827-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729.json"

Debian:13 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0+20170827-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729.json"

Debian:14 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/ncurses?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.0+20170827-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13729.json"