Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions [,6.1-20191019)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
2.29% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NCURSES-5884439
  • published27 Aug 2023
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2020-19189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ncurses to version 6.1-20191019 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds via the postprocess_terminfo function in tinfo/parse_entry.c:997.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1