Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses-static package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NCURSESSTATIC-1384319
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed11 Oct 2019

Introduced: 11 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17594  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 ncurses-static.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-static package and not the ncurses-static package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

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