CVE-2017-11112: Input Validation

First published: Sat Jul 08 2017(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

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