CVE-2019-17595

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-119 — Buffer OverflowCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow11 documents8 sources
Severity
5.4MEDIUM
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.19%
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 fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:LExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 2.5

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDgnu/ncurses< 6.2
▶Debianncurses< 6.1+20191019-1+3
▶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-mhrh-92mr-7rw4: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2019-17595: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash↗2019-10-14
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OSV
CVE-2019-17595: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_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 fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c↗2019-10-11
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Debian
CVE-2019-17595: ncurses - There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_h...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17595 ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c↗2019-10-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-17595 ncurses: heap-based buffer overflow in the fmt_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c [fedora-all]↗2019-10-29
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CVE-2019-17595 (MEDIUM CVSS 5.4) | There is a heap-based buffer over-r | cvebase.io