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Debian DLA-3167-1 : ncurses - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 166708

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3167 advisory.

 - ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library. (CVE-2022-29458)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the ncurses packages.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u3.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ncurses

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3167

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29458

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/ncurses

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166708

File Name: debian_DLA-3167.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2022

Updated: 10/6/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29458

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtinfo-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtinfo6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ncurses-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncursesw6-dbg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncursesw6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncurses5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncursesw5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64ncurses-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32ncursesw6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ncurses-bin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64ncursesw6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64tinfo6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtinfo5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32ncurses-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libtinfo6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib64ncurses6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncurses6-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32tinfo6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncurses-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncurses5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libncursesw5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ncurses-examples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:lib32ncurses6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29458