CVE-2017-11112

7.5 highEPSS 2.4%

High (7.5) in invisible-island ncurses. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

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

EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-20
Published: 2017-07-08
Modified: 2026-07-23
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

invisible-island:ncurses

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464686
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

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