ncurses: segfaulting OOB read

A segmentation fault vulnerability was found in ncurses's convertstrings function of tinfo/readentry.c file. This flaw occurs due to corrupted terminfo data, triggering an out-of-bounds read error...

SUSE CVE-2022-29458

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convertstrings in tinfo/readentry.c in the terminfo library...

Out-of-bounds Read

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the convertstrings function in tinfo/readentry.c, which allows attackers to crash the service when processing corrupt terminfo data. Remediation Upgrade ncurses to version 6.3 or higher. References - GitHub Commit ...

OESA-2022-1635 ncurses security update

The ncurses new curses library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0 SVr4, and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SVr4-curses enhancements over BSD curses. SVr...

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

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AZL-9497 CVE-2022-29458 affecting package ncurses for versions less than 6.3-2

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convertstrings in tinfo/readentry.c in the terminfo library...