Vulnerability Report

CVE-2019-17594

Title: Gnu Ncurses Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2019-17594.

CWE Category CWE-125
Published Date Oct 14, 2019
Modified Date Jul 27, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.3 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.54%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2019-17594: There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the _nc_find_entry function in tinfo/comp_hash.c in the terminfo library in ncurses before 6.1-20191012.

Impacted Vendors

I
invisible-island 1
G
gnu 1
N
ncurses_project 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00059.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00061.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00017.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2019-10/msg00045.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-28
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.3
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.6
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2019-17594 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector LOCAL
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.