CVE-2017-13729: Invisible-Island Ncurses

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Affected products

• Invisible-Island Ncurses: version 6.0 only

Published 2017-08-29. Last modified 2026-07-23.