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<glsa id="202408-19">
    <title>ncurses: Multiple Vulnerabilities</title>
    <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses, the worst of which could lead to a denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">ncurses,ncurses-compat</product>
    <announced>2024-08-09</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-08-09</revised>
    <bug>839351</bug>
    <bug>904247</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="sys-libs/ncurses" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">6.4_p20230408</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">6.4_p20230408</vulnerable>
        </package>
        <package name="sys-libs/ncurses-compat" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">6.4_p20240330</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">6.4_p20240330</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Free software emulation of curses in System V.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in ncurses. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="normal">
        <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All ncurses users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/ncurses-6.4_p20230408"
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-libs/ncurses-compat-6.4_p20240330"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29458">CVE-2022-29458</uri>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29491">CVE-2023-29491</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-08-09T11:05:25.778609Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-08-09T11:05:25.782155Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>