Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in ncurses 6.0

CVE-2017-11112 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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