New ncurses packages fixing buffer overrun available

Advisory:	RHSA-2000:115-02
Type:	Security Advisory
Severity:	N/A
Issued on:	2000-11-27
Last updated on:	2000-11-27
Affected Products:	Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0
OVAL:	N/A
CVEs (cve.mitre.org):	CVE-2000-0963

Details

If you are any setuid applications that use ncurses and its cursor movement

functionality, local users may gain access to the program's privileges.

2000-11-27: Added packages for Red Hat Linux 7 for Alpha

There used to be an overflowable buffer in the part of the ncurses library handling cursor movement.

Attackers can force a privileged application to use their own termcap file containing a special terminal entry which will trigger the ncurses
vulnerability, allowing them to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the exploited binary.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

Updated packages

Red Hat Linux 6.2

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/ncurses-5.0-12.alpha.rpm Missing file	`1decbd07374fd9fb7ae5a12641d2667b`
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/alpha/ncurses-devel-5.0-12.alpha.rpm Missing file	`ed52d2bad06cee2cec081bb889a5e363`

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/ncurses-5.0-12.i386.rpm Missing file	`d401a0317132c114a75dfeefb881f66c`
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/i386/ncurses-devel-5.0-12.i386.rpm Missing file	`bc84ee23b1b8f960a0911a5388c52d24`

sparc:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/ncurses-5.0-12.sparc.rpm Missing file	`654eca10b3b44afef783c39da3b254dc`
ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.2/sparc/ncurses-devel-5.0-12.sparc.rpm Missing file	`e273dd6e88899781bcc7441e7505de5c`

Red Hat Linux 7.0

alpha:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/ncurses-5.2-2.alpha.rpm Missing file	`64d008bc67646bc54c3b94b84a0c63fe`
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/alpha/ncurses-devel-5.2-2.alpha.rpm Missing file	`b2b05f687584244fd0a33583d7684b25`

i386:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/ncurses-5.2-2.i386.rpm Missing file	`9affe6c75ae33d616ea695766c10e44e`
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/ncurses-devel-5.2-2.i386.rpm Missing file	`a555ec460de5650c4a2c42abc5de838c`

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

20809 - ncurses allows local privilege escalation

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-0963
N/A

Keywords

setuid

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