CVE-2017-11112

Description

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.

Metrics

EPSS — exploit probability

2% (percentile: 84) as of 2 November 2026

CWE

CWE-20

Affected products

invisible-island: ncurses

References

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