GLSA-202408-19 : ncurses: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 205305

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202408-19 (ncurses: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

All ncurses users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230408 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-libs/ncurses-compat-6.4_p20240330

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202408-19

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=839351

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=904247

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 205305

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202408-19.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 8/9/2024

Updated: 8/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29491

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ncurses-compat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29458, CVE-2023-29491