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Red Hat: RHSA-2023:5249-01 Moderate: Ncurses Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey September 19, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new version of ncurses has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, classified with moderate severity owing to potential memory corruption issues.
An update for ncurses is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
Security Fix(es):
* ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data (CVE-2023-29491)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux ncurses update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29491 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: ncurses-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.src.rpm
aarch64: ncurses-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-c++-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-c++-libs-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-debugsource-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-devel-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm ncurses-libs-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: ncurses-base-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.noarch.rpm ncurses-term-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: ncurses-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-c++-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-c++-libs-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-compat-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-debuginfo-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-debugsource-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-devel-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm ncurses-libs-6.1-9.20180224.el8_8.1.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:5249-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5249
Issue date: 2023-09-19

Topic

An update for ncurses is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory corruption Red Hat Enterprise Linux ncurses update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2191704 - CVE-2023-29491 ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data

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