CVE-2019-17594
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.5%
There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 5.3 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 0.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 45th percentile
- Published
- 2019-10-14
- Updated
- 2026-10-14
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
Security advisories
- 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/msg00045.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28