RHEL 9 : ncurses (RHSA-2025:12876)

high Nessus Plugin ID 243554

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ncurses.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:12876 advisory.

The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.

Security Fix(es):

* ncurses: segfaulting OOB read (CVE-2022-29458)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL ncurses package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:12876.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 243554

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-12876.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 8/5/2025

Updated: 8/5/2025

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: 6.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

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

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/5/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29458

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2025:12876

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