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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-11112: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2019-1302)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2017-11112: Security patch for ncurses (ALAS-2019-1302)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/08/2017
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted 0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the terminfo library code is used to process untrusted terminfo data.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-c-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-compat-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-static
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ncurses-term

References

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