Fedora 27: FEDORA-2018-6c01a593b0 Moderate Ncurses NULL Pointer Crash

The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of

updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses

(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the

discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.

This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler

tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion

tool captoinfo.

Security fix for CVE-2018-10754.

* Thu May 10 2018 Miroslav Lichvar 6.0-14.20170722

- fix crash in parsing of terminfo use capability (CVE-2018-10754)

[ 1 ] Bug #1576119 - CVE-2018-10754 ncurses: NULL Pointer Dereference in _nc_parse_entry function in tinfo/parse_entry.c.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576119

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