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SUSE: 2022:1813-1 Moderate Update: Fix for ncurses Segmentation Fault

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2022
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Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2022:2717-1 Released: Tue Aug 9 12:54:16 2022 Summary: Security update for ncurses Type: security Severity: moderate

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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:

- libncurses6-6.1-150000.5.12.1 updated

- ncurses-utils-6.1-150000.5.12.1 updated

- terminfo-base-6.1-150000.5.12.1 updated

Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2022:1813-1
Container Tags : bci/bci-base:15.3 , bci/bci-base:15.3.17.20.12 , suse/sle15:15.3 , suse/sle15:15.3.17.20.12
Container Release : 17.20.12
Severity : moderate
Type : security

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security advisory moderate ncurses suse segfault container update

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