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Fedora 38 : ncurses (2024-96090dafaf)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189837

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-96090dafaf advisory.

 - ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security- relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable. (CVE-2023-29491)

 - NCurse v6.4-20230418 was discovered to contain a segmentation fault via the component _nc_wrap_entry().
 (CVE-2023-50495)

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

Solution

Update the affected ncurses package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-96090dafaf

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189837

File Name: fedora_2024-96090dafaf.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2024

Updated: 1/31/2024

Supported Sensors: 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: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:38, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ncurses

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29491, CVE-2023-50495