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This vulnerability has been modified since it was last analyzed by the NVD. It is awaiting reanalysis which may result in further changes to the information provided.
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.
Source: MITRE Description Last Modified: 08/29/2017 View Analysis Description
Source: MITRE Description Last Modified: 08/29/2017
Base Score: 6.5 MEDIUM Vector: AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H (V3 legend) Impact Score: 3.6 Exploitability Score: 2.8
Attack Vector (AV): Network Attack Complexity (AC): Low Privileges Required (PR): None User Interaction (UI): Required Scope (S): Unchanged Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availability (A): High
Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (V2 legend) Impact Subscore: 2.9 Exploitability Subscore: 8.6
Access Vector (AV): Network Access Complexity (AC): Medium Authentication (AU): None Confidentiality (C): None Integrity (I): None Availability (A): Partial Additional Information: Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanismAllows disruption of service
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https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 [No Types Assigned]
OR *cpe:2.3:a:gnu:ncurses:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 No Types Assigned
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry