Bug 1488919 (CVE-2017-13732)

Summary: CVE-2017-13732 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function dump_uses()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:09:00 UTC
There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a denial of service attack.

Bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484287

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:11:50 UTC
Created ncurses tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488923]

Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-07-27 15:24:48 UTC
*** Bug 1484287 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***