Advisory Published

USN-6684-1: ncurses vulnerability

First published: Thu Mar 07 2024(Updated: )

It was discovered that ncurses incorrectly handled certain function return values, possibly leading to segmentation fault. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash).

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
All of
ubuntu/lib32ncurses5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/lib32tinfo5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64ncurses5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64tinfo5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libncurses5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libtinfo5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32ncurses5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32tinfo5<6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04.1+esm2
Ubuntu Linux=18.04
All of
ubuntu/lib32ncurses5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/lib32tinfo5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64ncurses5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64tinfo5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libncurses5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libtinfo5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32ncurses5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32tinfo5<6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
6.0+20160213-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
All of
ubuntu/lib32ncurses5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/lib32tinfo5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64ncurses5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/lib64tinfo5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/libncurses5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/libtinfo5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32ncurses5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
All of
ubuntu/libx32tinfo5<5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1+esm5
Ubuntu Linux=14.04

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