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CentOS 9 : ncurses-6.2-8.20210508.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191233

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates for ncurses.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ncurses-6.2-8.20210508.el9 build changelog.

 - There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012. (CVE-2019-17594)

 - There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012. (CVE-2019-17595)

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 CentOS 9 Stream ncurses package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=12093

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191233

File Name: centos9_ncurses-6_2-8_20210508.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

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-2019-17595

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-compat-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-libs, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-static, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/10/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-17594, CVE-2019-17595