CVE Catalog
CVE-2017-13733
MediumCVSS 6.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
High risk2.73%
85th percentile - higher than 85% of all known CVEs
Summary
An illegal memory access was found in ncurses 6.0 in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c, potentially leading to a remote denial of service attack.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can remotely crash applications using ncurses, causing service disruption.
Recommendation
Update ncurses to the latest version that includes fixes for these memory bugs.
Original NVD description (English source)
There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.