ghsa-vh2x-5rx6-qqhv
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-04-14 03:30
Modified
2023-12-03 21:30
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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.

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{
   affected: [],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2023-29491",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-787",
      ],
      github_reviewed: false,
      github_reviewed_at: null,
      nvd_published_at: "2023-04-14T01:15:00Z",
      severity: "HIGH",
   },
   details: "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.",
   id: "GHSA-vh2x-5rx6-qqhv",
   modified: "2023-12-03T21:30:17Z",
   published: "2023-04-14T03:30:29Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29491",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commit;h=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
}


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