CVE-2019-17595

medium

Description

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.

References

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

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

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-14

Updated: 2021-02-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium