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SUSE: CVE-2017-13730: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-13730: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2017
Modified
08/12/2021

Description

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 remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-libncurses5
  • suse-upgrade-libncurses5-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libncurses5-x86
  • suse-upgrade-libncurses6
  • suse-upgrade-libncurses6-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-libncurses6-x86
  • suse-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • suse-upgrade-ncurses-devel-32bit
  • suse-upgrade-ncurses-utils
  • suse-upgrade-tack
  • suse-upgrade-terminfo
  • suse-upgrade-terminfo-base

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0120-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1
  • CVE-2017-13730

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