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

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dla-3682 advisory.

  - 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 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 / 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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-023 advisory.

  - 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 version of ncurses installed on the remote host is prior to 6.2-4.20200222. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2022-2022-217 advisory.

  - 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 version of ncurses installed on the remote host is prior to 6.0-8.20170212. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1893 advisory.

  - 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 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.

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

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

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 :

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

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.

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:1417-1 advisory.

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED12 / SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3491-1 advisory.

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:3490-1 advisory.

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

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

The remote SUSE Linux SUSE15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2021:3490-1 advisory.

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
186526	Debian DLA-3682-1 : ncurses - LTS security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
176244	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : ncurses vulnerabilities (USN-6099-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
173173	Amazon Linux 2023 : ncurses, ncurses-base, ncurses-c++-libs (ALAS2023-2023-023)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
168553	Amazon Linux 2022 : ncurses (ALAS2022-2022-217)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
168462	Amazon Linux 2 : ncurses (ALAS-2022-1893)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	high
162173	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : ncurses vulnerabilities (USN-5477-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
159864	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1406)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
159847	EulerOS Virtualization 2.10.1 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1380)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
158424	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1210)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
158363	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1229)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
157923	EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.6.0 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2022-1047)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
156411	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2021-2925)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
156408	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2021-2917)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
156301	EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : ncurses (EulerOS-SA-2021-2806)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
154768	openSUSE 15 Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-SU-2021:1417-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
154325	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2021:3491-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
154314	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2021:3490-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
154290	openSUSE 15 Security Update : ncurses (openSUSE-SU-2021:3490-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high

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