Low: ncurses

Issue Overview:

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for compilation. An attacker able to provide specially crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)

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:

i686:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
    ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686  
  
noarch:  
    ncurses-base-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.noarch  
    ncurses-term-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.noarch  
  
src:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  
    ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-10754

Mitre: CVE-2018-10754