CVE-2017-11112
ncurses: Illegal address access in append_acs function
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Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · June 24, 2017
Updated · May 13, 2026
Description
In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 3.3CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE not specified