| 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 |
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 | 6.2+20201114-2 | fixed | |
| bookworm | 6.2+20201114-4 | fixed | |
| sid | 6.2+20210905-1 | 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+20170902-1 | 873746 |
[wheezy] - ncurses <ignored> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484290