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openSUSE Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-2019-984)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 123401

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

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).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected ncurses packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1103320

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 123401

File Name: openSUSE-2019-984.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/27/2019

Updated: 6/7/2024

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: cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:15.0, 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:terminfo-screen, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses5-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:terminfo-iterm, 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:libncurses6-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5-32bit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libncurses5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses5-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ncurses-devel, 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: 3/23/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-19211