vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5448-1 (CVE-2017-13728): ncurses vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 29, 2017
Added
May 27, 2022
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

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