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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1417-1 Moderate: Heap Overflow in Ncurses

opensuse
Calendar Grey October 31, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch for Fedora resolves a significant vulnerability in libpng related to a buffer overflow that requires prompt remediation.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-39537: Fixed an heap-based buffer overflow in _nc_captoinfo.

(bsc#1190793)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity heap overflow openSUSE ncurses update

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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1417=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (i586 x86_64):

libncurses5-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses5-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses6-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses6-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-debugsource-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-devel-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-devel-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-utils-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-utils-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses5-devel-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

tack-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

tack-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

terminfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

terminfo-base-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

terminfo-iterm-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

terminfo-screen-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libncurses5-32bit-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses5-32bit-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses6-32bit-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

libncurses6-32bit-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-devel-32bit-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses-devel-32bit-debuginfo-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

ncurses5-devel-32bit-6.1-lp152.8.3.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-39537.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1190793

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1417-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate severity heap overflow openSUSE ncurses update

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