RLSA-2021:4426

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2021:4426
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2021:4426.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2021:4426
Related
Published
2021-11-09T09:21:17Z
Modified
2023-02-02T12:52:03.171656Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Moderate: ncurses security update
Details

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.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / ncurses

Package

Name
ncurses
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/ncurses?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:6.1-9.20180224.el8