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SUSE: 2023:1469-1 Moderate: Ncurses Memory Corruption Advisory

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Calendar Grey May 7, 2023
Dist Suse Esm H88
The recent update for SUSE/SLES 12 SP5 tackles identified security vulnerabilities within ncurses, specifically targeting memory corruption that could impact container stability and security.
The container suse/sles12sp5 was updated

Summary

Advisory ID: SUSE-SU-2023:2112-1 Released: Fri May 5 14:34:42 2023 Summary: Security update for ncurses Type: security Severity: moderate

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ncurses memory corruption patch suse container

References

References : 1210434 CVE-2023-29491

1210434,CVE-2023-29491

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2023-29491: Fixed memory corruption issues when processing malformed terminfo data (bsc#1210434).

The following package changes have been done:

- libncurses5-5.9-81.1 updated

- libncurses6-5.9-81.1 updated

- ncurses-utils-5.9-81.1 updated

- terminfo-base-5.9-81.1 updated

Container Advisory ID : SUSE-CU-2023:1469-1
Container Tags : suse/sles12sp5:6.5.466 , suse/sles12sp5:latest
Container Release : 6.5.466
Severity : moderate
Type : security

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate ncurses memory corruption patch suse container

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