SUSE SLES11 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2017:3183-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 104993

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

- CVE-2017-13728: Fix infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c (bsc#1056136).

- CVE-2017-13729: Fix illegal address access in the
_nc_save_str (bsc#1056132).

- CVE-2017-13730: Fix illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() (bsc#1056131).

- CVE-2017-13731: Fix illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() (bsc#1056129).

- CVE-2017-13732: Fix illegal address access in the function dump_uses() (bsc#1056128).

- CVE-2017-13733: Fix illegal address access in the fmt_entry function (bsc#1056127).

- CVE-2017-16879: Fix stack-based buffer overflow in the
_nc_write_entry() function (bsc#1069530).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch sdksp4-ncurses-13364=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch slessp4-ncurses-13364=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4:zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-ncurses-13364=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 104993

File Name: suse_SU-2017-3183-1.nasl

Version: 3.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/4/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-base, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13728, CVE-2017-13729, CVE-2017-13730, CVE-2017-13731, CVE-2017-13732, CVE-2017-13733, CVE-2017-16879

Detections

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