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Resource Exhaustion Affecting ncurses-base package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.7

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (19th percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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Red Hat
6.5 medium
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SUSE
5.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSESBASE-6148932
  • published 10 Jan 2024
  • disclosed 12 Dec 2023
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Introduced: 12 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-50495 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 ncurses-base to version 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2380.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses-base package and not the ncurses-base package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().