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.
- Affected products
- Almalinux, Astra Linux, Centos, Linuxmint, Apple Macos, Red Hat, Red Os, Suse
- Invisible-island Ncurses
- < 6.4
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.9% (58th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-04-14
CVE-2023-29491 at NVD
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