Updated ncurses packages fix security vulnerabilities
Publication date: 01 Jan 2018Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 6
CVE: CVE-2017-10684 , CVE-2017-10685 , CVE-2017-11112 , CVE-2017-11113 , CVE-2017-13728 , CVE-2017-13729 , CVE-2017-13730 , CVE-2017-13731 , CVE-2017-13732 , CVE-2017-13733 , CVE-2017-16879
Description
Possible RCE via stack-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function (CVE-2017-10684). Possible RCE with format string vulnerability in the fmt_entry function (CVE-2017-10685). Illegal address access in append_acs (CVE-2017-11112). Dereferencing NULL pointer in _nc_parse_entry (CVE-2017-11113). Fix infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c (CVE-2017-13728). Fix illegal address access in the _nc_save_str (CVE-2017-13729). Fix illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() (CVE-2017-13730). Fix illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() (CVE-2017-13731). Fix illegal address access in the function dump_uses() (CVE-2017-13732). Fix illegal address access in the fmt_entry function (CVE-2017-13733). Fix stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry() function (CVE-2017-16879).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21197
- http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-07/msg00071.html
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-08/msg00048.html
- https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2017-12/msg00002.html
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10684
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10685
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11112
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11113
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13728
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13729
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13730
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13731
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13732
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-13733
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16879
SRPMS
6/core
- ncurses-6.0-8.1.mga6