SUSE-SU-2017:2075-1

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    SUSE-SU-2017:2075-1

    Published: 7 Aug 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026

    Summary: Security update for ncurses

    Details: This update for ncurses fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-11112: Illegal address access in append_acs. (bsc#1047964) - CVE-2017-11113: Dereferencing NULL pointer in _nc_parse_entry. (bsc#1047965) - CVE-2017-10684, CVE-2017-10685: Add modified upstream fix from ncurses 6.0 to avoid broken termcap format (bsc#1046853, bsc#1046858, bsc#1049344)

    References: https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2017/suse-su-20172075-1/, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046853, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1046858, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047964, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1047965, https://bugzilla.suse.com/1049344, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10684, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10685, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11112, https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11113

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ncurses

    Purl: pkg:rpm/suse/ncurses&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Desktop%2012%20SP2

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -5.9-50.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High