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CVE-2019-17594

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Date: October 14, 2019

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.

Language: DEBIAN

Severity Score

5.3

Related Resources (10)

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-17594

Url: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17594

Url: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17594

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html

Url: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-17594

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2019-17594

Severity Score

5.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-125

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version 6.2

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.3
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.6
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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