CVE-2017-13733

Name	CVE-2017-13733
Description	There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	873746

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
ncurses (PTS)	stretch	6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye, sid	6.2+20201114-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Debian Bugs
ncurses	source	jessie	5.9+20140913-1+deb8u1
ncurses	source	stretch	6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1
ncurses	source	(unstable)	6.0+20170902-1	873746

[wheezy] - ncurses <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484290