CVE-2017-13729

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.

Fixed
LOW (2.3)
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    Tim Bastin detected CVE-2017-13729

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    Tim Bastin fixed CVE-2017-13729

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Affected component

debian/ncurses

Installed version:
6.4
Fixed in:
6.0+20170827-1

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