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Amazon Linux 2 : ncurses (ALAS-2024-2482)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191516

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of ncurses installed on the remote host is prior to 6.0-8.20170212. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2482 advisory.

 ncurses 6.4-20230610 has a NULL pointer dereference in tgetstr in tinfo/lib_termcap.c. (CVE-2023-45918)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

Solution

Run 'yum update ncurses' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2482.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-45918.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191516

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2482.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/5/2024

Updated: 12/11/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-45918

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-compat-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-libs, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:ncurses-static

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-45918