Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-11112: ncurses Multiple vulnerabilities
5
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
07/08/2017
07/25/2018
10/25/2017
12/04/2019
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs 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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-ncurses
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