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There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the fmt_entry...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 28, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 14, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Jan 28, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

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(22nd percentile)

Weaknesses

Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2019-17595

GHSA ID

GHSA-mhrh-92mr-7rw4

Source code

No known source code

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