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Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ncurses Open this link in a new tab

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    EPSS 0.06% (22nd percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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SUSE
4 medium
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Red Hat
5.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU1910-NCURSES-579998
  • published 15 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 14 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 14 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-17594 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-125 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ncurses package and not the ncurses package as distributed by Ubuntu.

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.