ncurses: CVE-2022-29458

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-29458  

Debian Bug report logs - #1009870
ncurses: CVE-2022-29458

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Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 15:36:01 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in version ncurses/6.3-2

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ncurses: CVE-2022-29458
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:33:17 +0200
Source: ncurses
Version: 6.3-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil@debian.org, Debian Security Team <team@security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for ncurses.

CVE-2022-29458[0]:
| ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and
| segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the
| terminfo library.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29458
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-29458
[1] https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#t20220416

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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