CVE-2022-29458

Published: 18 April 2022

ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	DoS only

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.1

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
ncurses Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1)
	focal	Released (6.2-0ubuntu2.1)
	impish	Ignored (reached end-of-life)
	jammy	Released (6.3-2ubuntu0.1)
	kinetic	Not vulnerable (6.3+20220423-2)
	lunar	Not vulnerable (6.3+20220423-2)
	trusty	Released (5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm2)
	upstream	Released (6.3-20220416)
	xenial	Released (6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm2)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/mirror/ncurses/commit/4c9f63c460cb7134f142aa65f6866c175ed77605

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1009870

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