Debian Security Advisory

DLA-3167-1 ncurses -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Oct 2022

Affected Packages:

ncurses

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-29458.

More information:

An issue has been found in ncurses, a collection of shared libraries for terminal handling. This issue is about an out-of-bounds read in convert_strings in the terminfo library.

For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your ncurses packages.

For the detailed security status of ncurses please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ncurses

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LT