Bug 1488915 (CVE-2017-13728)

Summary:	CVE-2017-13728 ncurses: Infinite loop in the next_char function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:05:40 UTC

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 denial of service attack.

Bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484274

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:11:58 UTC

Created ncurses tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488923]

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-07-27 15:24:05 UTC

*** Bug 1484274 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***