Security update for ncurses

Announcement ID:	SUSE-SU-2017:2076-1
Rating:	moderate
References:	bsc#1046853 bsc#1046858 bsc#1047964 bsc#1047965 bsc#1049344
Cross-References:	CVE-2017-10684 CVE-2017-10685 CVE-2017-11112 CVE-2017-11113
CVSS scores:	CVE-2017-10684 ( SUSE ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVE-2017-10684 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2017-10685 ( SUSE ): 5.6 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVE-2017-10685 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVE-2017-11112 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVE-2017-11112 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVE-2017-11113 ( SUSE ): 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVE-2017-11113 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products:	SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4

An update that solves four vulnerabilities and has one security fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for ncurses fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-11112: Illegal address access in append_acs. (bsc#1047964) - CVE-2017-11113: Dereferencing NULL pointer in _nc_parse_entry. (bsc#1047965) - CVE-2017-10684, CVE-2017-10685: Add modified upstream fix from ncurses 6.0 to avoid broken termcap format (bsc#1046853, bsc#1046858, bsc#1049344)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4
  zypper in -t patch sdksp4-ncurses-13227=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4
  zypper in -t patch slessp4-ncurses-13227=1
• SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  zypper in -t patch slessp4-ncurses-13227=1

Package List:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (x86_64 i586)
  • tack-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-devel-5.6-93.6.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11 SP4 (x86_64)
  • ncurses-devel-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
  • tack-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses5-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-devel-5.6-93.6.1
  • terminfo-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-utils-5.6-93.6.1
  • terminfo-base-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses6-5.6-93.6.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ia64)
  • libncurses5-x86-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses6-x86-5.6-93.6.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (ppc64 s390x x86_64)
  • libncurses5-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses6-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-devel-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
• SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
  • tack-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses5-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-devel-5.6-93.6.1
  • terminfo-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses5-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses6-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-utils-5.6-93.6.1
  • terminfo-base-5.6-93.6.1
  • ncurses-devel-32bit-5.6-93.6.1
  • libncurses6-5.6-93.6.1

References:

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10684.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10685.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11112.html
• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-11113.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046853
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1046858
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047964
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1047965
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049344