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CVE-2017-13734

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Published: Aug 29, 2017Modified: Jul 23, 2026

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6.5
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Invisible Island
1 product
Ncurses
Configuration A
1 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Ncurses
Version 6.0

Related CWEs

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (4)

Source: cve@mitre.org
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: cve@mitre.org
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
ExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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