Bug 1488915 (CVE-2017-13728) - CVE-2017-13728 ncurses: Infinite loop in the next_char function
Summary: CVE-2017-13728 ncurses: Infinite loop in the next_char function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-13728
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1484274 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1484274 1488923
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 13:05 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:24:27 UTC
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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.

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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. ***
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