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ncurses fixes upstream

From: "Jonathan Bar Or (JBO)" <jobaror () microsoft com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:40:37 +0000

Hello oss-security,

Our team has worked with the maintainer of the ncurses library (used by several software packages in Linux) to fix 
several memory corruption vulnerabilities.
They are now fixed at commit 20230408 - see details here 
(https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20230408)
A CVE was assigned (CVE-2023-29491) - it's still under a "reserved" status.

How can we ensure those fixes get deployed upstream, in major Linux distributions?
We've reached out to Arch, RedHat, Canonical and other popular distros independently.

Thanks!
                             JBO

Current thread:

ncurses fixes upstream Jonathan Bar Or (JBO) (Apr 12)
- Re: ncurses fixes upstream Sam James (Apr 13)
  - Re: ncurses fixes upstream Georgi Guninski (Apr 15)
    - Re: ncurses fixes upstream Solar Designer (Apr 15)
- Re: ncurses fixes upstream alice (Apr 13)
- Re: ncurses fixes upstream Mark Esler (Apr 13)
  - Re: ncurses fixes upstream Tavis Ormandy (Apr 14)
- Re: ncurses fixes upstream Carlos López (Apr 19)
  - RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [oss-security] ncurses fixes upstream Jonathan Bar Or (JBO) (Apr 19)
    - Re: ncurses fixes upstream Solar Designer (Apr 19)
    - Re: ncurses fixes upstream Tavis Ormandy (Apr 20)

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