Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0122: ncurses (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0122)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 236165

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0122 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 236165

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0122.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.9

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-libs-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-term, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-static, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-base, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-compat-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-compat-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-c%2b%2b-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses-libs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:ncurses

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Alibaba/release, Host/Alibaba/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-29491

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