CVE-2017-13732
6.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.29%
Description
There is an illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.
How to fix CVE-2017-13732
To remediate CVE-2017-13732, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/ncurses—upgrade to 6.0_p20170701-r0 or later
- Debian/ncurses—upgrade to 6.0+20170827-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-13732 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 6.0_p20170701-r0
- from 0, < 6.0+20170827-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |