ncurses: CVE-2019-17594 CVE-2019-17595

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17594   CVE-2019-17595  

Debian Bug report logs - #942401
ncurses: CVE-2019-17594 CVE-2019-17595

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

Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:57:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: security, upstream

Found in versions ncurses/6.1+20190803-1, ncurses/5.9-10

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From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: ncurses: CVE-2019-17594 CVE-2019-17595
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:54:42 +0200
Source: ncurses
Version: 6.1+20190803-1
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerabilities were published for ncurses.

CVE-2019-17594[0]:
| There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function
| in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before
| 6.1-20191012.


CVE-2019-17595[1]:
| There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in
| tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before
| 6.1-20191012.


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

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17594
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17594
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html
[1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17595
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-17595
    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore



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Bug#942401; Package src:ncurses. (Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:18:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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Message #10 received at 942401@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Cc: 942401@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#942401: ncurses: CVE-2019-17594 CVE-2019-17595
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:15:53 +0200
Control: found -1 5.9-10

On 2019-10-15 20:54 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:

> Source: ncurses
> Version: 6.1+20190803-1
> Severity: important
> Tags: security upstream
>
> The following vulnerabilities were published for ncurses.
>
> CVE-2019-17594[0]:
> | There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function
> | in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before
> | 6.1-20191012.
>
>
> CVE-2019-17595[1]:
> | There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in
> | tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before
> | 6.1-20191012.
>
> Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Marking the bugs as found in the Wheezy version of ncurses, but I think
they have actually been around for much longer.

Cheers,
       Sven



Marked as found in versions ncurses/5.9-10. Request was from Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> to 942401-submit@bugs.debian.org. (Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:18:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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