UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17595
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UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17595
Published: 14 Oct 2019Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
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Summary:
Details: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-17595, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html, https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5477-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6099-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17595
Affected packages
Package
Name: ncurses
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm2?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm2
Affected versions
5.9+20130608-1ubuntu1
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