openSUSE Security Update: Security update for ncurses ______________________________________________________________________________

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4034-1 Rating: important References: #1115929 Cross-References: CVE-2018-19211 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3 ______________________________________________________________________________

An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description:

This update for ncurses fixes the following issue:

Security issue fixed:

- CVE-2018-19211: Fixed denial of service issue that was triggered by a NULL pointer dereference at function _nc_parse_entry (bsc#1115929).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1509=1

Package List:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

libncurses5-5.9-66.1 libncurses5-debuginfo-5.9-66.1 libncurses6-5.9-66.1 libncurses6-debuginfo-5.9-66.1 ncurses-debugsource-5.9-66.1 ncurses-devel-5.9-66.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo-5.9-66.1 ncurses-utils-5.9-66.1 ncurses-utils-debuginfo-5.9-66.1 tack-5.9-66.1 tack-debuginfo-5.9-66.1 terminfo-5.9-66.1 terminfo-base-5.9-66.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

libncurses5-32bit-5.9-66.1 libncurses5-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1 libncurses6-32bit-5.9-66.1 libncurses6-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1 ncurses-devel-32bit-5.9-66.1 ncurses-devel-debuginfo-32bit-5.9-66.1

References:

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-19211.html https://bugzilla.suse.com/1115929