USN-6099-1: ncurses Ubuntu
Vulnerability summary
USN-6099-1 is a vulnerability in ncurses Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.
No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 5 · Downstream 0 · Related 5Timeline
- 23-05-2023PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 29-06-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
ncurses vulnerabilities It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly performing bounds checks when processing invalid hashcodes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17594) It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly handling end-of-string characters when processing terminfo and termcap files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-17595) It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly handling end-of-string characters when converting between termcap and terminfo formats. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-39537) It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly performing bounds checks when dealing with corrupt terminfo data while reading a terminfo file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-29458) It was discovered that ncurses was parsing environment variables when running with setuid applications and not properly handling the processing of malformed data when doing so. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (application crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-29491)
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EPSS trend
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Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: not stated in public data.
Ubuntu1 product
- ncurses< 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm3 | < 6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm3 | < 6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1 | < 6.2-0ubuntu2.1 | < 6.3-2ubuntu0.1
1 vendor · 1 product