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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-17595: Moderate: ncurses security update (ALSA-2021-4426)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-17595: Moderate: ncurses security update (ALSA-2021-4426)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-ncurses
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-c++-libs
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • alma-upgrade-ncurses-term

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