Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title ncurses: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201804-13 First vendor Publication 2018-04-17
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-04-17
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in ncurses, the worst of which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Background

Free software emulation of curses in System V.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing the user to process untrusted terminfo or other data, could execute arbitrary code or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All ncurses users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/ncurses-6.1:0"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-10684 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10684
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-10685 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-10685
[ 3 ] CVE-2017-11112 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11112
[ 4 ] CVE-2017-11113 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11113
[ 5 ] CVE-2017-13728 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13728
[ 6 ] CVE-2017-13729 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13729
[ 7 ] CVE-2017-13730 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13730
[ 8 ] CVE-2017-13731 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13731
[ 9 ] CVE-2017-13732 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13732
[ 10 ] CVE-2017-13733 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13733
[ 11 ] CVE-2017-13734 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-13734
[ 12 ] CVE-2017-16879 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16879

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-13

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201804-13.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
64 % CWE-119 Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
9 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)
9 % CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference
9 % CWE-134 Uncontrolled Format String (CWE/SANS Top 25)
9 % CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-09-18 Name : The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1252.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-1_0-0093.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0053.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0038.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-08-17 Name : The remote PhotonOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : PhotonOS_PHSA-2017-0024.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-06-28 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1166.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-04-18 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201804-13.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1005.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-19 Name : The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.
File : EulerOS_SA-2018-1006.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-12-04 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-3183-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-10-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_b84dbd94e8944c91b8cdd328537b1b2b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-920.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2076-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-08 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-2075-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-18 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-823.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1815-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-07 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1790-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-04-17 21:18:48
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