Google: sys-libs/ncurses: security update to 17069.0.0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 453066

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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)

Solution

Update the sys-libs/ncurses library and its related packages to version 17069.0.0 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 453066

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Google COS Security Checks

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

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: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29458

Detections

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