NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting ncurses package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
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- published 27 Sep 2021
- disclosed 8 Jul 2017
Introduced: 8 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11113 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
ncurses
to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2019-1302
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses
package and not the ncurses
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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.