Re: [RHSA-1999:028-01] Buffer overflow in libtermcap tgetent()

From: Martin Schulze (joeyat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 19 1999 - 09:16:25 PDT

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Olaf Kirch wrote:
> FWIW, Caldera OpenLinux has stopped using termcap altogether since release 2.2.
> Doing an rpm -qlv ncurses-termcap-devel reveals that libtermcap.so is a
> symlink to libncurses.

Same for Debian.  However, I haven't checked ncurses and terminfo.  I
don't know if and how much code is shared with termcap thus I don't
know if the apps might still be vulnerable.

Regards,

	Joey

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