Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-base package, versions <0:6.1-9.20180224.el8
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.15% (51st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS8-NCURSESBASE-2147770
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 11 Oct 2019
How to fix?
Upgrade Centos:8
ncurses-base
to version 0:6.1-9.20180224.el8 or higher.
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 Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:8
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.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17595
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4426
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html