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CVE-2017-13734

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-08-29 · updated 2026-07-23
• Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: 6.0

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

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