Out-of-bounds Read Affecting ncurses package, versions [,6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NCURSES-2319239
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed14 Oct 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17594  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ncurses to version 6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. 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.

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