vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13728: Infinite Loop

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2017
Added
Oct 25, 2017
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ncurses
Title
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