Alpine: ncurses: security update to 6.0_p20170930-r0

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405691

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

- 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. (CVE-2017-11113)

- In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs 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. (CVE-2017-11112)

- 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. (CVE-2017-13728)

- There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will
lead to a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-13729)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 405691

Version: Revision 1.25

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11113

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13728

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/8/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11112, CVE-2017-11113, CVE-2017-13728, CVE-2017-13729, CVE-2017-13730, CVE-2017-13731, CVE-2017-13732, CVE-2017-13733, CVE-2017-13734

BID: 104599

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