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Ubuntu: USN-5477-1 (CVE-2017-16879): ncurses vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5477-1 (CVE-2017-16879): ncurses vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/22/2017
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libncurses5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtinfo5
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ncurses-bin

References

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