USN-9078-1

It was discovered that ncmpc incorrectly handled long chat messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause ncmpc to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS / ncmpc

Package

Name: ncmpc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/ncmpc?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fbionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Affected versions

0.*

0.25-0.1build1

0.27-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "ncmpc",
            "binary_version": "0.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ncmpc-lyrics",
            "binary_version": "0.27-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2018-9240",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-9078-1.json"