Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : ncurses vulnerability (USN-8503-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-8503-1 advisory. It was discovered that ncurses incorrectly handled certain terminfo entries in the infocmp tool. An attacker could possibly us...

EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1006)

According to the version of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - Stack-based buffer overflow in the ncwriteentry function in tinfo/writeentry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service...

CVE-2017-16879

Stack-based buffer overflow in the ncwriteentry function in tinfo/writeentry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic...