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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2018:4000-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 120179

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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 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).

Non-security issue fixed: Remove scree.xterm from terminfo data base as with this screen uses fallback TERM=screen (bsc#1103320).

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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-2018-2861=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2018-2861=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2018-2861=1

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1103320

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115929

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19211/

http://www.nessus.org/u?46be55c0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 120179

File Name: suse_SU-2018-4000-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/2/2019

Updated: 7/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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:suse_linux:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-iterm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-screen, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel-32bit-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19211