Fedora 28: ncurses Security Update
Summary
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.
* Wed May 9 2018 Miroslav Lichvar
- 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
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ed74f27aef' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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FEDORA-2018-ed74f27aef 2018-05-31 14:34:44.120512 Product : Fedora 28 Version : 6.1 Release : 5.20180224.fc28 URL : https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html Summary : Ncurses support utilities Description : 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. * Wed May 9 2018 Miroslav Lichvar 6.1-5.20180224 - 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 su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2018-ed74f27aef' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/security/ package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to package-announce-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PMCKYV7VFEHNIH3ZOUMR3STP3WBPWELN/
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