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Bug 1488917 - (CVE-2017-13730) CVE-2017-13730 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source()
CVE-2017-13730 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20170823,reported=2...
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: 1484284 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1484284 1488923
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Reported: 2017-09-06 09:07 EDT by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2018-07-27 11:24 EDT (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 09:07:38 EDT
There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a denial of service attack.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484284
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 09:12:05 EDT
Created ncurses tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488923]
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-07-27 11:24:17 EDT
*** Bug 1484284 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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