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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13728: ncurses security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2017-13728: ncurses security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
02/25/2020
Added
02/24/2020
Modified
02/24/2020

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(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-ncurses
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp5-upgrade-ncurses-term

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