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SUSE: 2018:4000-1 Important: ncurses Denial Of Service Update

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2018
Dist Suse Esm H88
SUSE Security Update for ncurses: Important patches available for denial of service issue with CVE-2018-19211.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available

Summary

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues: 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). Non-security issue fixed: - Remove scree.xterm from terminfo data base as with this screen uses fallback TERM=screen (bsc#1103320). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE 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: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-2018-2861=1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15: zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2018-2861=1

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Topics Covered

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References

#1103320 #1115929

Cross- CVE-2018-19211

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Legacy Software 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19211.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1103320

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115929

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2018:4000-1
Rating: important

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