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Ubuntu: USN-5477-1 (CVE-2018-19211): ncurses vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5477-1 (CVE-2018-19211): ncurses vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/12/2018
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will lead to a denial of service attack. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a "dubious character `*' in name or alias field" detection.

Solution(s)

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

References

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