Vigil@nce - ncurses: out-of-bounds memory reading via _nc_find_entry
January 2020 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/computer-vulnerability
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: openSUSE Leap, Solaris, SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop, SLES.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 19/11/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
_nc_find_entry() of ncurses, in order to trigger a denial of
service, or to obtain sensitive information.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/ncurses-out-of-bounds-memory-reading-via-nc-find-entry-30901