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Ubuntu: USN-5448-1 (CVE-2017-13730): ncurses vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5448-1 (CVE-2017-13730): ncurses vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/29/2017
Created
05/31/2022
Added
05/27/2022
Modified
11/15/2024

Description

There is an illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0 that might lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32ncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib32tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-lib64tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libtinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncurses5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32ncursesw5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libx32tinfo5
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-base
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-bin
  • ubuntu-pro-upgrade-ncurses-term

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