Alpine: multiple libformw packages, multiple ncurses packages: security update to 6.4-r0 (deprecated)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 400069

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- 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. (CVE-2023-29491)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 400069

Version: Revision 1.26

Type: Local

Family: Alpine Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/12/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.6

Percentile: 98.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-29491

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29491

Detections

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