vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-5448-1 (CVE-2017-11113): ncurses vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Jul 8, 2017 | May 27, 2022 | Mar 27, 2026 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 8, 2017
Added
May 27, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.
Solutions
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncurses5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncursesw5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32tinfo5ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-baseubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-binubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-term
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