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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-13729: ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-13729: ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/18/2018
Modified
04/18/2018

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(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-libs-ncurses

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