Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-base package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSESBASE-6149365
  • published 10 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 14 Oct 2019

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ncurses-base to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2412.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-base package and not the ncurses-base package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

5.4 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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Red Hat

5.4 medium