Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-11112

Title: Gnu Ncurses Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-11112.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jul 08, 2017

Modified Date Jul 23, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.23%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-11112: 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.

Impacted Vendors

gnu 1

ncurses_project 1

invisible-island 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns