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ncurses: patch CVE-2025-6141

Pick relevant part of snapshot commit 20250329, see [1].

That has:
add a buffer-limit check in postprocess_termcap (report/testcase by
Yifan Zhang).

[1] https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20250329

(From OE-Core rev: 8d09a78a79d7f4b4ae9654bdcdf5f33dab9a8b95)

Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Peter Marko 2 months ago
parent
commit
7103a733a1

+ 25 - 0
meta/recipes-core/ncurses/files/CVE-2025-6141.patch

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 27d1493340d714e7be6e08c0a8f43e48276149c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <dickey@invisible-island.net>
+Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:52:37 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] snapshot of project "ncurses", label v6_5_20250329
+
+CVE: CVE-2025-6141
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/commit/27d1493340d714e7be6e08c0a8f43e48276149c4]
+Signed-off-by: Peter Marko <peter.marko@siemens.com>
+---
+ ncurses/tinfo/parse_entry.c | 2 ++
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/ncurses/tinfo/parse_entry.c b/ncurses/tinfo/parse_entry.c
+index a2278c07..c551c780 100644
+--- a/ncurses/tinfo/parse_entry.c
++++ b/ncurses/tinfo/parse_entry.c
+@@ -954,6 +954,8 @@ postprocess_termcap(TERMTYPE2 *tp, bool has_base)
+ 	    bp = tp->Strings[from_ptr->nte_index];
+ 	    if (VALID_STRING(bp)) {
+ 		for (dp = buf2; *bp; bp++) {
++		    if ((size_t) (dp - buf2) >= (sizeof(buf2) - sizeof(TERMTYPE2)))
++			  break;
+ 		    if (bp[0] == '$' && bp[1] == '<') {
+ 			while (*bp && *bp != '>') {
+ 			    ++bp;

+ 1 - 0
meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses_6.3+20220423.bb

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-tic-hang.patch \
            file://CVE-2023-29491.patch \
            file://CVE-2023-50495.patch \
            file://CVE-2023-45918.patch \
+           file://CVE-2025-6141.patch \
            "
 # commit id corresponds to the revision in package version
 SRCREV = "a0bc708bc6954b5d3c0a38d92b683c3ec3135260"