CVE-2019-17594

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow11 documents8 sources
Severity
5.3MEDIUM
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.70%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
GNU NcursesOpensuse Leap
Timeline
PublishedOct 14
Latest updateMay 23

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDgnu/ncurses< 6.2
▶Debianncurses< 6.1+20191019-1+3
▶Ubuntuncurses< 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+4
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Patches

Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗Patch: lists.gnu.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2023-05-23
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GHSA
GHSA-wjvh-4293-hh6x: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash↗2022-05-24
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OSV
CVE-2019-17594: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash↗2019-10-14
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CVEList
CVE-2019-17594: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash↗2019-10-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2023-05-23
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Ubuntu
ncurses vulnerabilities↗2022-06-14
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Red Hat
ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c↗2019-10-11
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Debian
CVE-2019-17594: ncurses - There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/c...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17594 ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c [fedora-all]↗2019-10-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17594 ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c↗2019-10-29
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CVE-2019-17594 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.3) | There is a heap-based buffer over-r | cvebase.io