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SUSE SLES12SP5: 2022:1782-1 Moderate: Ncurses Security Update

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2022
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Patch released for SUSE container suse/sles12sp5 tackling medium severity vulnerabilities related to ncurses.
The container suse/sles12sp5 was updated

Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2022:2718-1 Released: Tue Aug 9 12:54:54 2022 Summary: Security update for ncurses Type: security Severity: moderate

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security advisory ncurses moderate severity suse container update

References

References : 1198627 CVE-2022-29458

1198627,CVE-2022-29458

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2022-29458: Fixed segfaulting out-of-bounds read in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c (bsc#1198627).

The following package changes have been done:

- libncurses5-5.9-78.1 updated

- libncurses6-5.9-78.1 updated

- ncurses-utils-5.9-78.1 updated

- terminfo-base-5.9-78.1 updated

Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2022:1782-1
Container Tags : suse/sles12sp5:6.5.359 , suse/sles12sp5:latest
Container Release : 6.5.359
Severity : moderate
Type : security

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security advisory ncurses moderate severity suse container update

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