PT-2019-5180 · Ncurses+8 · Ncurses+8

Published 2019-10-13 · Updated 2023-05-23 · CVE-2019-17594

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ncurses versions prior to 6.1-20191012

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer over-read in the nc find entry function, located in the tinfo/comp hash.c file of the terminfo library in ncurses. This could potentially allow an attacker to impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.1-20191012, update to version 6.1-20191012 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable nc find entry function until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

ALSA-2021:4426

ALT-PU-2020-3296

BDU:2020-01853

CESA-2021_4426

CVE-2019-17594

MGASA-2019-0387

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2550-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2551-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2550-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2019_2551-1

RHSA-2021:4426

RHSA-2021_4426

RLSA-2021:4426

SUSE-SU-2019:2997-1

SUSE-SU-2019:3094-1

SUSE-SU-2019_2997-1

USN-5477-1

USN-6099-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Almalinux

Centos

Linuxmint

Red Hat

Rocky Linux

Suse

Ubuntu

Ncurses

References · 86

• 🔥 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17595 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-00296 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17594 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2020-3296 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16879 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-17594 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-29491 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2019:2550-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-01854 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17594 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19211 · Security Note
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html · Patch
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-05772 · Security Note