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CVE-2019-17595

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-10-14 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

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

Affected products

• GNU ncurses: before 6.2 — fixed in 6.2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GNU ncurses 6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00013.html
• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28
• https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html

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