Oval Definition:
oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:201713729000
Revision Date
:
2017-08-29
Version
:
1
Title
:
CVE-2017-13729 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - negligible.
Description
:
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.
Family
:
unix
Class
:
vulnerability
Status
:
Reference(s)
:
CVE-2017-13729
Platform(s)
:
Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s)
:
Definition Synopsis
Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
AND
The 'ncurses' package in cosmic is affected and needs fixing.
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