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Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 29, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-13734

CVE-2017-13734

Description

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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Affected products

11

GNU/Ncurses
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ncurses/ncursesllm-fuzzy
Range: 6.0
osv-coords9 versions
pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP2 pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP3
< 5.9-58.1+ 8 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.9-58.1

Patches

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References

2

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13nvd

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