Bug 1488922 (CVE-2017-13734) - CVE-2017-13734 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_safe_strcat
Summary: CVE-2017-13734 ncurses: Illegal address access in the function _nc_safe_strcat
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-13734
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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: 1484291 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 1484291 1488923
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-06 13:10 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:24:35 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:10:49 UTC 
There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a denial of service attack.

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-06 13:12:20 UTC 
Created ncurses tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1488923]
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2018-07-27 15:25:10 UTC 
*** Bug 1484291 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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