Medium: ncurses

Issue Overview:

ncurses 6.4-20230610 has a NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c. (CVE-2023-45918)

Affected Packages:

ncurses

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update ncurses to update your system.

New Packages:

aarch64:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
    ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.aarch64  
  
i686:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
    ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.i686  
  
noarch:  
    ncurses-base-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.noarch  
    ncurses-term-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.noarch  
  
src:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  
    ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.8.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-45918

Mitre: CVE-2023-45918