VULHUB ™

The ncurses library v4.2 and 5.0 contains exploitable buffer overflows which can be used to gain additional priveledge if there are SUID programs which use ncurses and the library implementation supports ~/.terminfo. Vulnerable programs found so far include Red Hat and SuSE cda, FreeBSD /usr/bin/systat, and OpenBSD /usr/bin/systat.

The ncurses library v4.2 and 5.0 contains exploitable buffer overflows which can be used to gain additional priveledge if there are SUID programs which use ncurses and the library implementation supports ~/.terminfo. Vulnerable programs found so far include Red Hat and SuSE cda, FreeBSD /usr/bin/systat, and OpenBSD /usr/bin/systat.