Alpine/ncurses: medium 6.5

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.

Action: Upgrade ncurses to 6.0_p20170930-r0 or later.

Affected

Fixed versions

Sources

• osv: ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734#Alpine:v3.6/ncurses
• https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-13734

published 2017-08-29T06:29:00.517Z · modified 2026-06-15T18:24:14.849017644Z · JSON