Resource Exhaustion Affecting ncurses-debuginfo package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-NCURSESDEBUGINFO-6148981
  • published10 Jan 2024
  • disclosed12 Dec 2023

Introduced: 12 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-50495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ncurses-debuginfo to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2380.

NVD Description

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

NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().

CVSS Scores

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