Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ncurses package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.1% (42nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSES-3160137
- published 7 Dec 2022
- disclosed 18 Apr 2022
Introduced: 18 Apr 2022
CVE-2022-29458 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
ncurses
to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2022-1893
.
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.
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29458
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00016.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00014.html
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00037.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28