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.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 22.10 / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6099-1 advisory.

  - 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)

  - An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer     overflow. (CVE-2021-39537)

  - ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings     in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library. (CVE-2022-29458)

  - ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-     relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo     or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable. (CVE-2023-29491)

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5477-1 advisory.

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in the _nc_write_entry function in tinfo/write_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 allows     attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a     crafted terminfo file, as demonstrated by tic. (CVE-2017-16879)

  - In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will     lead to a denial of service attack. The product proceeds to the dereference code path even after a     dubious character `*' in name or alias field detection. (CVE-2018-19211)

  - 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)

  - An issue was discovered in ncurses through v6.2-1. _nc_captoinfo in captoinfo.c has a heap-based buffer     overflow. (CVE-2021-39537)

  - ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings     in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library. (CVE-2022-29458)

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

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2021:4426 advisory.

  - 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2021-4426 advisory.

  - 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:4426 advisory.

  - ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17594)

  - ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (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.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-2021:4426 advisory.

  - ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17594)

  - ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c (CVE-2019-17595)

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

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202101-28 (ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities)

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

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

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

  - There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in     comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A     crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13728)

  - There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str     function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead     to a remote denial of service attack.(CVE-2017-13729)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function
    _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0     that might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13730)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13731)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13732)

  - There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry     function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13733)

  - There is an illegal address access in the
    _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13734)

  - 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 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 versions of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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)

  - 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 an illegal address access in the
    _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13734)

  - There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry     function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13733)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13732)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13731)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function
    _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0     that might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13730)

  - There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str     function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead     to a remote denial of service attack.(CVE-2017-13729)

  - There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in     comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A     crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13728)

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 versions of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - 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)

  - 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)

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.

An update of the ncurses package has been released.

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

  - In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at     function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will     lead to a denial of service attack. The product     proceeds to the dereference code path even after a     'dubious character `*' in name or alias field'     detection.(CVE-2018-19211)

  - 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)

  - There is an illegal address access in the
    _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13734)

  - There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str     function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead     to a remote denial of service attack.(CVE-2017-13729)

  - There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry     function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13733)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function
    _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0     that might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13730)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13732)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13731)

  - There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in     comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A     crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13728)

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 versions of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following 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)

  - In ncurses 6.0, there is a stack-based buffer overflow     in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to     a remote arbitrary code execution     attack.(CVE-2017-10684)

  - In ncurses 6.0, there is a format string vulnerability     in the fmt_entry function. A crafted input will lead to     a remote arbitrary code execution     attack.(CVE-2017-10685)

  - In ncurses 6.0, there is an attempted     0xffffffffffffffff access in the append_acs function of     tinfo/parse_entry.c. It could lead to a remote denial     of service attack if the terminfo library code is used     to process untrusted terminfo data.(CVE-2017-11112)

  - In ncurses 6.0, there is a NULL Pointer Dereference in     the _nc_parse_entry function of tinfo/parse_entry.c. It     could lead to a remote denial of service attack if the     terminfo library code is used to process untrusted     terminfo data.(CVE-2017-11113)

  - There is an infinite loop in the next_char function in     comp_scan.c in ncurses 6.0, related to libtic. A     crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13728)

  - There is an illegal address access in the _nc_save_str     function in alloc_entry.c in ncurses 6.0. It will lead     to a remote denial of service attack.(CVE-2017-13729)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function
    _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c in ncurses 6.0     that might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13730)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13731)

  - There is an illegal address access in the function     dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13732)

  - There is an illegal address access in the fmt_entry     function in progs/dump_entry.c in ncurses 6.0 that     might lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13733)

  - There is an illegal address access in the
    _nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c in ncurses 6.0     that will lead to a remote denial of service     attack.(CVE-2017-13734)

  - In ncurses 6.1, there is a NULL pointer dereference at     function _nc_parse_entry in parse_entry.c that will     lead to a denial of service attack. The product     proceeds to the dereference code path even after a     'dubious character `*' in name or alias field'     detection.(CVE-2018-19211)

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 versions of the ncurses packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following 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 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.

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.

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

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

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

Non-security issue fixed :

  - Removed screen.xterm from terminfo database     (bsc#1103320).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues :

Security issues fixed :

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

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

Non-security issue fixed: Removed screen.xterm from terminfo database (bsc#1103320).

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.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
176244	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 22.10 / 23.04 : ncurses vulnerabilities (USN-6099-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
162173	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : ncurses vulnerabilities (USN-5477-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
157717	AlmaLinux 8 : ncurses (ALSA-2021:4426)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	medium
155409	Oracle Linux 8 : ncurses (ELSA-2021-4426)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
155184	RHEL 8 : ncurses (RHSA-2021:4426)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
155038	CentOS 8 : ncurses (CESA-2021:4426)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
145433	GLSA-202101-28 : ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	medium
141674	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2020-2207)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
137951	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2020-1732)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
134495	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2020-1206)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
134207	Photon OS 1.0: Ncurses PHSA-2020-1.0-0281	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
132818	EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.5.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2020-1064)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
132169	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2634)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131912	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2420)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	critical
131818	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2544)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131555	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2019:3094-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
131358	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2019-2292)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
131279	openSUSE Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-2019-2551)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
131278	openSUSE Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-2019-2550)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
131159	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2019:2997-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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