Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in ncurses 6.0's comp_scan.c

CVE-2017-13728 · MEDIUM Severity

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

There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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