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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-17594: ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2019-17594: ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
01/26/2021
Added
01/26/2021
Modified
01/26/2021

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-sys-apps-ncurses

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