Name: CVE-2017-13728: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-08-29T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2017-13728, CWE-835, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.03896

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade ncurses	Oct 25, 2017	Aug 29, 2017
Debian	—	Upgrade ncurses	Jul 30, 2024	Aug 29, 2017
Freebsd	—	Upgrade ncurses	Oct 11, 2017	Oct 11, 2017
Gentoo Linux	—	Upgrade sys-libs/ncurses.	Apr 18, 2018	Aug 29, 2017
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp2	—	Upgrade ncursesUpgrade ncurses-libsUpgrade ncurses-baseUpgrade ncurses-develUpgrade ncurses-term	Dec 4, 2019	Aug 29, 2017
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp3	—	Upgrade ncurses-develUpgrade ncurses-libsUpgrade ncurses-baseUpgrade ncursesUpgrade ncurses-term	Dec 18, 2019	Aug 29, 2017
Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp5	—	Upgrade ncursesUpgrade ncurses-baseUpgrade ncurses-develUpgrade ncurses-libsUpgrade ncurses-term	Feb 24, 2020	Aug 29, 2017
Oracle Solaris	—	Upgrade library/ncurses to version 6.1.0.20190105-11.4.8.0.1.1.0 on Solaris 11.4	Apr 17, 2019	Aug 29, 2017
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Aug 23, 2017
Suse	—	Upgrade terminfoUpgrade libncurses6-x86Upgrade terminfo-baseUpgrade libncurses5-x86Upgrade ncurses-utilsUpgrade libncurses5Upgrade libncurses5-32bitUpgrade libncurses6Upgrade ncurses-develUpgrade libncurses6-32bitUpgrade ncurses-devel-32bitUpgrade tack	Dec 1, 2017	Aug 29, 2017
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade ncurses-term (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade lib64ncurses5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libncurses5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade ncurses-bin (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libncursesw5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade lib32tinfo5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libx32ncurses5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libtinfo5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade lib32ncurses5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade ncurses-base (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade lib32ncursesw5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libx32tinfo5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade lib64tinfo5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libx32ncursesw5 (Ubuntu Pro)	May 27, 2022	Aug 29, 2017
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Aug 29, 2017

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