{"action":"Upgrade ncurses to 6.0_p20170701-r0 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"6.0_p20170701-r0","introduced":"0"}],"component":"ncurses","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Alpine","ecosystem_qualifier":"Alpine:v3.5","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["6.0_p20170701-r0"],"id":"tcs_01M5N9393337YV2M4H8Z0TVRTH","modified_at":"2026-06-15T18:24:14.736994986Z","published_at":"2017-08-29T06:29:00.297Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13728","https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-13728"],"severity":{"label":"high","score":7.5},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"ALPINE-CVE-2017-13728#Alpine:v3.5/ncurses","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2017-13728"}],"summary":"There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack."}