RLSA-2021:4426
Moderate: ncurses security update
Topic
An update is available for ncurses.
This update affects Rocky Linux 8.
A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list
Description
The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
Security Fix(es):
* ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17594)
* ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17595)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.
Rocky Linux 8
SRPMs
- ncurses-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.src.rpm
RPMs
- ncurses-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-base-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.noarch.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-c++-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-debugsource-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-debugsource-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-debugsource-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-devel-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-devel-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-devel-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-libs-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.aarch64.rpm
- ncurses-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.i686.rpm
- ncurses-libs-debuginfo-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.x86_64.rpm
- ncurses-term-0:6.1-9.20180224.el8.noarch.rpm
Issued: 11/9/2021
Type: Security
Severity: Moderate
Affected Product
- Rocky Linux 8
References
- No references