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CVE-2017-11113

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-07-08 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: 6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

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