CVE-2017-13730

Upstream information

CVE-2017-13730 at MITRE

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Running

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	4.3	5
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network	Network
Access Complexity	Medium	Low
Authentication	None	None
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	Partial	Partial

CVSS v3 Scores

	SUSE
Base Score	5.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Privileges Required	None
User Interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Low

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1056131 [IN_PROGRESS], 1069530 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1, published Fri, 1 Dec 2017 18:16:43 +0100 (CET)
• SUSE-SU-2018:0120-1, published Wed Jan 17 07:08:42 MST 2018
• SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1, published Tue Jan 30 07:10:37 MST 2018
• openSUSE-SU-2018:0159-1, published Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:15:53 +0100 (CET)

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
Openstack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2018-209 SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2018-86
SUSE CaaS Platform ALL	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-CAASP-ALL-2018-209 SUSE-CAASP-ALL-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 tack >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 tack >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	libncurses5 >= 5.6-93.12.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.6-93.12.1 libncurses5-x86 >= 5.6-93.12.1 libncurses6 >= 5.6-93.12.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.6-93.12.1 libncurses6-x86 >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.6-93.12.1 tack >= 5.6-93.12.1 terminfo >= 5.6-93.12.1 terminfo-base >= 5.6-93.12.1	Patchnames: slessp4-ncurses-13364
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 tack >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 tack >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 tack >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	ncurses >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.6-93.12.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.6-93.12.1 tack >= 5.6-93.12.1	Patchnames: sdksp4-ncurses-13364
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2	ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3	ncurses >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-86
openSUSE Leap 42.2	libncurses5 >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses5-debuginfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses6-debuginfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-debugsource >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-55.9.1 ncurses-utils-debuginfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 tack >= 5.9-55.9.1 tack-debuginfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 terminfo >= 5.9-55.9.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-55.9.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2018-55
openSUSE Leap 42.3	libncurses5 >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses5-debuginfo >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses6-debuginfo >= 5.9-62.1 libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-debugsource >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-62.1 ncurses-utils-debuginfo >= 5.9-62.1 tack >= 5.9-62.1 tack-debuginfo >= 5.9-62.1 terminfo >= 5.9-62.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-62.1	Patchnames: openSUSE-2018-55

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Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification.

Product(s)	Source package	State
CaaS Platform 1.0	ncurses	Released
CaaS Platform 2.0	ncurses	Released
OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7.0	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise SDK 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 GA LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3	ncurses	Released