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CVE-2023-29491

Published: Apr 14, 2023

Modified: Nov 4, 2025

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

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

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

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

[oss-security] 20230419 Re: ncurses fixes upstream

mailing-list

[oss-security] 20230419 RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: ncurses fixes upstream

mailing-list

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

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

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

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

[debian-lts-announce] 20231203 [SECURITY] [DLA 3682-1] ncurses security update

mailing-list

FEDORA-2024-96090dafaf

vendor-advisory

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