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openSUSE Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-2018-1509)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119542

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for ncurses fixes the following issue :

Security issue fixed :

 - CVE-2018-19211: Fixed denial of service issue that was triggered by a NULL pointer dereference at function
 _nc_parse_entry (bsc#1115929).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected ncurses packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1115929

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119542

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1509.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/10/2018

Updated: 7/16/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-19211

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:terminfo-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:terminfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tack-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tack

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/7/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19211