Resource Exhaustion Affecting ncurses-compat-libs package, versions <0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.7
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (20th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-NCURSESCOMPATLIBS-6148993
- published 10 Jan 2024
- disclosed 12 Dec 2023
Introduced: 12 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-50495 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2
ncurses-compat-libs
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-compat-libs
package and not the ncurses-compat-libs
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().
References
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-50495
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-04/msg00020.html
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2023-04/msg00029.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0008/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/