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CVE-2023-29491

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.

Published

2023-04-14T01:15:08.570

Last Modified

2024-11-21T07:57:09.933

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 7.8 (HIGH)

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	gnu	ncurses	< 6.4	Yes

References

http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html ([email protected])
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ ([email protected])
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/ ([email protected])
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 ([email protected])
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 ([email protected])
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 ([email protected])
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List ([email protected])
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch ([email protected])
http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/ (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5 Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4 Mailing List, Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)