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Bug#944009: buster-pu: package ncurses/6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2



On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 08:10:39PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> Tags: buster d-i
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: pu
> 
> I would like to upload ncurses 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u2 to buster, fixing
> several bugs in tic's parser which have been reported last month.  Two
> of them are heap buffer overflows that have been assigned CVE numbers

hmm - "overflow" is the wrong term, afaik
(all of the ones that I verified were out-of-bound-reads).

> and a Debian bug[1], two others are out-of-bound-reads and one an
> infinite loop.
> 
> I have verified that the reported crashes and the infinite loop which I
> could reproduce in ncurses 6.1+20181013-2+deb10u1 appear to be fixed, at
> least with the submitted corrupt input files.  Also, the compiled
> terminfo files in ncurses-base and ncurses-term are identical to the
> ones currently in buster.
> 
> This upload touches the tinfo library which is used in the installer,
> however to the best of my knowledge the changed functions are only used
> by tic and not by any other packages.

that's accurate - comp*.c are just tic.

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Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
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