MEDIUMCVSS 6.5

CVE-2017-13731

CVE-2017-13731 updated by NVD

Modified: 2026-07-25
Sources: nvd

Summary

There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13731

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