Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NCURSES-367781
  • published 29 Aug 2017
  • disclosed 29 Aug 2017

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 ncurses to version 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is an illegal address access in the _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0 that will lead to a remote denial of service attack.