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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:07:48 +0100
From: Sam James <sam@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ncurses fixes upstream


"Jonathan Bar Or (JBO)" <jobaror@...rosoft.com> writes:

> 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?

Try emailing the distributions mailing list at lists.linux.dev too?

> We've reached out to Arch, RedHat, Canonical and other popular distros independently.
>
> Thanks!
>                              JBO


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