CVE-2023-29491
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-14 00:00
Modified
2024-11-27 14:45
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
0.07% (0.17253)
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
cve@mitre.orghttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4Mailing List, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4Mailing List, Patch
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