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.
(CVE-2019-17594)
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. (CVE-2019-17595)
It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly handling
end-of-string characters when converting between termcap and
terminfo formats. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-39537)
It was discovered that ncurses was incorrectly performing bounds
checks when dealing with corrupt terminfo data while reading a
terminfo file. 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, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
(CVE-2022-29458)
It was discovered that ncurses was parsing environment variables when
running with setuid applications and not properly handling the
processing of malformed data when doing so. A local attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service (application
crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-29491)
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