openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:4034-1 Important Ncurses Denial Of Service Fix
opensuse
December 8, 2018
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.
Description
This update for ncurses fixes the following issue:
Security issue fixed:
- CVE-2018-19211: Fixed denial of service issue that was triggered by a
NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry (bsc#1115929).
This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.
Topics Covered
Patch
Patch Instructions:
To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods
like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
- openSUSE Leap 42.3:
zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1509=1
Package List
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):
libncurses5-5.9-66.1
libncurses5-debuginfo-5.9-66.1
libncurses6-5.9-66.1
libncurses6-debuginfo-5.9-66.1
ncurses-debugsource-5.9-66.1
ncurses-devel-5.9-66.1
ncurses-devel-debuginfo-5.9-66.1
ncurses-utils-5.9-66.1
ncurses-utils-debuginfo-5.9-66.1
tack-5.9-66.1
tack-debuginfo-5.9-66.1
terminfo-5.9-66.1
terminfo-base-5.9-66.1
- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):
libncurses5-32bit-5.9-66.1
libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1
libncurses6-32bit-5.9-66.1
libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1
ncurses-devel-32bit-5.9-66.1
ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1
References
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19211.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115929
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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4034-1
Rating: important
Affected Products:
openSUSE Leap 42.3
Topics Covered
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