The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
Security Fix(es):
ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the ncfindentry function in tinfo/comphash.c (CVE-2019-17594)
ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmtentry function in tinfo/comphash.c (CVE-2019-17595)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.