CVE-2017-13731

Upstream information

CVE-2017-13731 at MITRE

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

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

	National Vulnerability Database	SUSE
Base Score	6.5	5.3
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector	Network	Network
Attack Complexity	Low	Low
Privileges Required	None	None
User Interaction	Required	None
Scope	Unchanged	Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact	None	None
Integrity Impact	None	None
Availability Impact	High	Low
CVSSv3 Version	3	3

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1056129 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1069530 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1115932 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1123132 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1175501 [RESOLVED / WORKSFORME]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-CU-2019:695-1, published Tue Jan 14 00:06:30 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:706-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:56:32 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:708-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:56:51 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:710-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:57:10 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:712-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:57:31 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:714-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:57:50 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:716-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:58:06 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:719-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:58:33 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:721-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:58:53 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:723-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:59:12 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:725-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:59:40 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:727-1, published Thu Jan 16 09:59:57 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:729-1, published Thu Jan 16 10:00:23 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:731-1, published Thu Jan 16 10:01:00 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:733-1, published Thu Jan 16 10:01:25 MST 2020
• SUSE-CU-2019:738-1, published Thu Jan 16 10:02:14 MST 2020
• SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1, published Fri Dec 1 10:16:42 MST 2017
• 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

List of released packages

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
Container caasp/v4/default-http-backend:beta1 Container caasp/v4/dnsmasq-nanny:2.78 Container caasp/v4/flannel:0.9.1 Container caasp/v4/haproxy:beta1 Container caasp/v4/kubedns:beta1 Container caasp/v4/nginx-ingress-controller:beta1 Container caasp/v4/openldap:beta1 Container caasp/v4/pause:1.0.0 Container caasp/v4/pv-recycler-node:8.25 Container caasp/v4/salt-api:beta1 Container caasp/v4/salt-master:beta1 Container caasp/v4/salt-minion:beta1 Container caasp/v4/sidecar:beta1 Container caasp/v4/velum:4.0.0	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1
Container suse/ltss/sle12.5/sles12sp5:8.5.7 Container suse/sles12sp5:5.2.257 Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-ECS-On-Demand	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1
Container suse/sles12sp3:12.16	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1
Container suse/sles12sp4:14.28	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1
Image SLES12-SP4-Azure-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-GCE-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-OCI-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-Azure Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-Azure-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-EC2-HVM Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-EC2-HVM-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-GCE Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-GCE-BYOS Image SLES12-SP4-SAP-OCI-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-Basic-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-HPC-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-HPC-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-Azure-Standard-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-GCE-SAP-On-Demand Image SLES12-SP5-OCI-BYOS-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-OCI-BYOS-SAP-BYOS Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production Image SLES12-SP5-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo >= 5.9-58.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-58.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	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 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-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-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-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-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-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 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 Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 GA libncurses5-32bit-5.9-58.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA ncurses-devel-5.9-58.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5	libncurses5 >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-64.1 tack >= 5.9-64.1 terminfo >= 5.9-64.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-64.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 GA libncurses5-32bit-5.9-64.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 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-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: sdksp4-ncurses-13364 slessp4-ncurses-13364
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 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-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-SDK-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-86 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 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-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-SDK-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-86 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-86
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 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 Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 GA libncurses5-32bit-5.9-58.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA ncurses-devel-5.9-58.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5	libncurses5 >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses5-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses6 >= 5.9-64.1 libncurses6-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1 ncurses-devel >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-devel-32bit >= 5.9-64.1 ncurses-utils >= 5.9-64.1 tack >= 5.9-64.1 terminfo >= 5.9-64.1 terminfo-base >= 5.9-64.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 GA libncurses5-32bit-5.9-64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA ncurses-5.9-64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA ncurses-devel-5.9-64.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2	libncurses5 >= 5.9-58.1 libncurses6 >= 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 Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4	ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 GA ncurses-devel-5.9-58.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5	ncurses-devel >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA ncurses-5.9-64.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5 GA ncurses-devel-5.9-64.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2	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-devel >= 5.9-58.1	Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-209 SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-86

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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. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s)	Source package	State
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5	ncurses	Released
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
HPE Helion OpenStack 8	ncurses	Affected
Magnum Orchestration 7	ncurses	Released
SUSE CaaS Platform 3.0	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 1.0	ncurses	Released
SUSE Container as a Service Platform 2.0	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP2	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP3	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 11 SP3	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Sale 12 SP2-CLIENT	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 SP3	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4-LTSS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 LTSS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-ESPOS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-ESPOS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-ESPOS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS	ncurses	Unsupported
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP2	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP3	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP2	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP3	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP1	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3	ncurses	Released
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4	ncurses	Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5	ncurses	Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7	ncurses	Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8	ncurses	Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9	ncurses	Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8	ncurses	Affected
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 9	ncurses	Affected

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Aug 29 09:15:43 2017
CVE page last modified: Mon Nov 18 13:47:16 2024