Buffer Overflow in Gnu Ncurses (CVE-2017-13734)
Summary
Vulnerability in Gnu Ncurses (CVE-2017-13734). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2017-13734 has been found in Gnu Ncurses.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 6.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Gnu Ncurses CVE-2017-13734" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2017-13734 (Gnu Ncurses) — CWE-119 / CVSS v3 6.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-119) exists in Gnu Ncurses.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Gnu Ncurses.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Ncurses' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Ncurses' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Ncursesを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2017-13734 ncurses Fixed in: 6.0_p20170701-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2017-13734 ncurses Fixed in: 6.0+20170827-1
References
- exploit bugzilla.redhat.com
- web security.gentoo.org