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CVE-2023-29491

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Date: April 13, 2023

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.8

Related Resources (17)

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/10

Url: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/13/4

Url: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/5

Url: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/19/11

Url: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00004.html

Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commit;h=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-29491

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-29491

Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=eb51b1ea1f75a0ec17c9c5937cb28df1e8eeec56

Url: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-29491

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29491

Url: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845

Url: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230517-0009/

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-29491

Severity Score

7.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

Top Fix

Upgrade Version

Upgrade to version ncurses - 6.4

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.8
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	LOW
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

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CVE-2023-29491

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Date: April 13, 2023

Language: C

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Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

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CVSS v3.1

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