There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
| Link | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13 | vendor advisory |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1484291 | issue tracking patch exploit vdb entry third party advisory |