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high 7.5

CVE-2017-11113 json

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c.

published 9y ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2017-2750

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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.

Patch / fix

  • ncurses Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 6.0+20170701-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-11113

  • ncurses Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm1
  • ncurses Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11113

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ncurses SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 5.9-50.1
  • ncurses SLES for SAP 11 SP4, SLES 11 SP4, SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 5.6-93.6.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:2075-1SUSE-SU-2017:2076-1

  • ncurses Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4, Alpine 3.3 6.0_p20170701-r0
  • ncurses Alpine 3.6 6.0_p20170930-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-11113

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-11113 updated cvss 3.3

ncurses: Null pointer dereference vulnerability in _nc_parse_entry function

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ncurses Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ncurses, ncurses-base, ncurses-libs, ncurses-term Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ncurses, ncurses-base, ncurses-libs, ncurses-term
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464691 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Sources

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