CVE-2019-17594

MEDIUM

GNU Ncurses < 6.2 - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html
Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 10.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (3)
gnu/ncurses < 6.2
opensuse/leap 15.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
Published Oct 14, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026