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ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734

ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734 PUBLISHED CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Alpine:v3.5ncurses6.0-r8, 6.0-r7, 6.0-r6
Alpine:v3.3ncurses6.0-r1, 0, 5.7-r0
Alpine:v3.4ncurses6.0-r2, 0, 5.6-r0
Alpine:v3.6ncurses0, 6.0-r8, 6.0-r7

Timeline

  • Aug 29, 2017 CVE Published
  • Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
  • Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
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