vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2017-13729: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Aug 29, 2017 | Oct 25, 2017 | Mar 25, 2026 |
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 illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-ncurses
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