UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15548

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-15548

    Published: 26 Aug 2019Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-15548

    Summary:

    Details: An issue was discovered in the ncurses crate through 5.99.0 for Rust. There are instr and mvwinstr buffer overflows because interaction with C functions is mishandled.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-15548, https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2019-0006.html, https://github.com/RustSec/advisory-db/issues/106, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-15548

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: rust-ncurses

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=focal

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    5.99.0-1

    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