Summary
The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
Security Fix(es):
* ncurses: segfaulting OOB read (CVE-2022-29458)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
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| Rocky Linux · 9 | ncurses | 0:6.2-10.20210508.el9_6.2 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.1
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read…
References
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report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2076483