CVE-2017-11112: Invisible-Island Ncurses

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Invisible-Island Ncurses: version 6.0 only

Published 2017-07-08. Last modified 2026-07-23.