Bug 1473310 (CVE-2017-11113)

Summary:	CVE-2017-11113 ncurses: Null pointer dereference vulnerability in _nc_parse_entry function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	mlichvar, v.owl337
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Fixed In Version:	ncurses 6.0-20170701	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-20 12:54:41 UTC

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.

Bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691

Upstream patch:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2017-07/msg00001.html

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2017-07-26 13:07:44 UTC

*** Bug 1464691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***