CVE-2023-29491

high

Description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/LU4MYMKFEZQ5VSCVLRIZGDQOUW3T44GT/

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-04-14

Updated: 2025-11-04

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00065