CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-29491
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-14
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
ncurses before 6.4 20230408, when used by a setuid application, allows local users to trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data in a terminfo database file that is found in $HOME/.terminfo or reached via the TERMINFO or TERM environment variable.
Affected configurations
• invisible-island ncurses (< 6.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 ncurses.scripts.mit.edu
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 support.apple.com
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
- http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 ncurses.scripts.mit.edu
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/ security.netapp.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 support.apple.com
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 support.apple.com
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-202008.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com