CVE-2019-17594

Publication date 14 October 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ncurses	23.04 lunar	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	21.10 impish	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 6.1+20191019-1ubuntu1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	19.04 disco	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm2 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

mdeslaur

DoS only

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L