Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ncurses package, versions <6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (35th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1804-NCURSES-482343
- published 15 Oct 2019
- disclosed 14 Oct 2019
Introduced: 14 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-17594 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04
ncurses
to version 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1 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 Ubuntu
.
See How to fix?
for Ubuntu:18.04
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-17594
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17594
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
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