Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues :

Security issue fixed :

CVE-2018-10754: Fixed a denial of service caused by a NULL pointer Dereference in the _nc_parse_entry() (bsc#1131830).

CVE-2019-17594: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (bsc#1154036).

CVE-2019-17595: Fixed a heap-based buffer over-read in fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (bsc#1154037).

Bug fixes: Fixed ppc64le build configuration (bsc#1134550).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update of the ncurses package has been released.

Security fix for CVE-2018-10754.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the
    _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for     compilation. An attacker able to provide specially     crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the     application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

According to the version of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the
    _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for     compilation. An attacker able to provide specially     crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the     application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for compilation. An attacker able to provide specially crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
131555	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2019:3094-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
121968	Photon OS 2.0: Ncurses PHSA-2018-2.0-0074	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
121858	Photon OS 1.0: Ncurses PHSA-2018-1.0-0164	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
120884	Fedora 28 : ncurses (2018-ed74f27aef)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
118426	EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1338)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
117430	EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1276)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
111645	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1225)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
111607	Amazon Linux 2 : ncurses (ALAS-2018-1053)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
110882	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2018-1218)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
110251	Fedora 27 : ncurses (2018-6c01a593b0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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