Out-of-Bounds Affecting ncurses package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.6
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.15% (51st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSES-6149208
- published 10 Jan 2024
- disclosed 14 Oct 2019
How to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
ncurses
to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.6 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2412
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses
package and not the ncurses
package as distributed by Amazon-Linux
.
See How to fix?
for Amazon-Linux:2
relevant fixed versions and status.
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17595
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28