[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: ncurses-6.0-14.20170722.fc27
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2018-6c01a593b0
2018-05-30 14:31:21.817995
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Name : ncurses
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 6.0
Release : 14.20170722.fc27
URL : http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
Summary : Ncurses support utilities
Description :
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses
(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the
discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.
This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler
tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion
tool captoinfo.
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Update Information:
Security fix for CVE-2018-10754.
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ChangeLog:
* Thu May 10 2018 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar(a)redhat.com> 6.0-14.20170722
- fix crash in parsing of terminfo use capability (CVE-2018-10754)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1576119 - CVE-2018-10754 ncurses: NULL Pointer Dereference in _nc_parse_entry
function in tinfo/parse_entry.c.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1576119
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