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Medium ALAS2-2019-1302 4 CVEs

Moderate: ncurses security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 30, 2019 · Updated Oct 2, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-11113: In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry 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. 1473310: CVE-2017-11113 ncurses: Null pointer dereference vulnerability in _nc_parse_entry function CVE-2017-11112: 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. 1473306: CVE-2017-11112 ncurses: Illegal address access in append_acs function CVE-2017-10685: In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack. 1473312: CVE-2017-10685 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow caused by format string vulnerability in fmt_entry function CVE-2017-10684: In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to a remote arbitrary code execution attack. 1473302: CVE-2017-10684 ncurses: Stack-based buffer overflow in fmt_entry function in dump_entry.c

Fixed packages 9

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-base 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-c++-libs 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-compat-libs 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-debuginfo 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-devel 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-libs 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-static 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3
Amazon Linux · 2 ncurses-term 0:6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.3

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-10684.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-10685.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-11112.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2017-11113.html