NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.02 : ncurses Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2024-0057)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 206858

Synopsis

The remote NewStart CGSL host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.02, has ncurses packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

- 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

Upgrade the vulnerable CGSL ncurses packages. Note that updated packages may not be available yet. Please contact ZTE for more information.

See Also

https://security.gd-linux.com/notice/NS-SA-2024-0057

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2019-17594

https://security.gd-linux.com/info/CVE-2019-17595

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 206858

File Name: newstart_cgsl_NS-SA-2024-0057_ncurses.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/10/2024

Updated: 9/10/2024

Supported Sensors: 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: cpe:/o:zte:cgsl_main:6, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses-compat-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses-libs, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:zte:cgsl_main:ncurses

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/3/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2019

Reference Information

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