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CVE-2017-13733

Date: August 29, 2017

There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Language: C

Severity Score

6.5

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-13733

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13733

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13733

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

Url: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484290

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13733

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-13733

Severity Score

6.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	6.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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