NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting libyui-ncurses-pkg-doc package, versions <2.48.5.2-3.5.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.06% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBYUINCURSESPKGDOC-2742668
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed31 Jul 2019

Introduced: 31 Jul 2019

CVE-2018-20532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libyui-ncurses-pkg-doc to version 2.48.5.2-3.5.3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libyui-ncurses-pkg-doc package and not the libyui-ncurses-pkg-doc package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_read) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.