| Name | CVE-2017-13730 |
| Description | There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 873723 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ncurses (PTS) | bullseye | 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.4-4 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 6.5-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ncurses | source | jessie | 5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1 | | | |
| ncurses | source | stretch | 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 | | | |
| ncurses | source | (unstable) | 6.0+20170827-1 | | | 873723 |
Notes
[wheezy] - ncurses <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484284