Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1053
Advisory Release Date: 2018-08-08 18:08 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-08-09 22:15 Pacific
Severity:
Low
Issue Overview:
A NULL pointer dereference was found in the way the _nc_parse_entry function parses terminfo data for compilation. An attacker able to provide specially crafted terminfo data could use this flaw to crash the application parsing it.(CVE-2018-10754)
Affected Packages:
ncurses
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ncurses to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.i686
noarch:
ncurses-base-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.noarch
ncurses-term-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.noarch
src:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.src
x86_64:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64
ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.1.x86_64