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HistoryNov 09, 2021 - 9:21 a.m.

Moderate: ncurses security update

2021-11-0909:21:17
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osv.dev
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ncurses
security update
buffer overflow
cve-2019-17594
cve-2019-17595
almalinux
release notes

AI Score

5.9

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

59.1%

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 _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17594)

  • ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.