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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19211: ncurses security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-19211: ncurses security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/12/2018
Created
12/19/2019
Added
12/18/2019
Modified
12/18/2019

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ncurses
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ncurses-devel
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ncurses-libs
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-ncurses-term

References

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