Ubuntu Security Notice 6099-1 - It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly performing bounds checks when processing invalid hashcodes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly handling end-of-string characters when processing terminfo and termcap files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
bd5932f6f83f66022d0f8b28696a79dea826d643696406d830f69821bd9667ddUbuntu Security Notice 5477-1 - Hosein Askari discovered that ncurses was incorrectly performing memory management operations when dealing with long filenames while writing structures into the file system. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. Chung-Yi Lin discovered that ncurses was incorrectly handling access to invalid memory areas when parsing terminfo or termcap entries where the use-name had invalid syntax. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
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