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


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-RUSTNCURSES-1169052
  • published13 May 2023
  • disclosed26 Aug 2019

Introduced: 26 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-15548  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:20.04 rust-ncurses.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust-ncurses package and not the rust-ncurses package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.