CVE-2017-13729

medium
Published 2017-08-29 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
4.3
VIR risk
6.5

Description

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-13729

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-13729.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed6.0+20170827-1
debian debianbullseyefixed6.0+20170827-1
debian debianforkyfixed6.0+20170827-1
debian debiansidfixed6.0+20170827-1
debian debiantrixiefixed6.0+20170827-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuncurses6.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.