CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-29458
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-04-18
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
ncurses 6.3 before patch 20220416 has an out-of-bounds read and segmentation violation in convert_strings in tinfo/read_entry.c in the terminfo library.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses (< 6.3)
• invisible-island ncurses 6.3
• apple macos (< 13.0)
• debian debian linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00037.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00014.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00016.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/28 seclists.org
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/41 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00037.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00014.html Exploit, Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-ncurses/2022-04/msg00016.html Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213488 Third Party Advisory