Out-of-bounds Write Affecting ncurses package, versions [,6.4-20230418)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of concept
EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NCURSES-6125620
  • published14 Dec 2023
  • disclosed12 Dec 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-50495  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ncurses to version 6.4-20230418 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write via the _nc_wrap_entry component. An attacker can cause a crash of the application by triggering a segmentation fault.

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