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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-17595: Vulnerability in Ncurses

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2019-17595: Vulnerability in Ncurses

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/14/2019
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
02/17/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-ncurses-6-1-0-20190105-11-4-16-0-1-3-0

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