Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-13731
CVE-2017-13731
Description
There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
4- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3Envd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13nvd
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.