SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : ncurses (SUSE-SU-2018:0284-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 106527

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for ncurses fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2017-13734: Prevent illegal address access in the
_nc_safe_strcat function in strings.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056126).

- CVE-2017-13733: Prevent illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056127).

- CVE-2017-13732: Prevent illegal address access in the function dump_uses() in progs/dump_entry.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056128).

- CVE-2017-13731: Prevent illegal address access in the function postprocess_termcap() in parse_entry.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056129).

- CVE-2017-13730: Prevent illegal address access in the function _nc_read_entry_source() in progs/tic.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056131).

- CVE-2017-13729: Prevent illegal address access in the
_nc_save_str function in alloc_entry.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056132).

- CVE-2017-13728: Prevent infinite loop in the next_char function in comp_scan.c that might have lead to a remote denial of service attack (bsc#1056136).

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.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2018-209=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2018-209=1

SUSE CaaS Platform ALL:zypper in -t patch SUSE-CAASP-ALL-2018-209=1

OpenStack Cloud Magnum Orchestration 7:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2018-209=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106527

File Name: suse_SU-2018-0284-1.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/31/2018

Updated: 10/30/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13734

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13728

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo-base, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:terminfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libncurses5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:ncurses-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:tack

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/30/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13728, CVE-2017-13729, CVE-2017-13730, CVE-2017-13731, CVE-2017-13732, CVE-2017-13733, CVE-2017-13734

Detections

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