ALPINE-CVE-2017-11113 — Vulnetix

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ALPINE-CVE-2017-11113 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.6	ncurses	5.8-r2, 5.8-r1, 5.8-r0
Alpine:v3.3	ncurses	5.6-r0, 5.7-r0, 5.7-r1
Alpine:v3.4	ncurses	5.7-r0, 6.0-r8, 6.0-r7
Alpine:v3.5	ncurses	0, 5.6-r0, 5.7-r0

Timeline

Jul 8, 2017 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-11113 advisory

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