Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2096
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-21 19:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-29 19:47 Pacific
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
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)
Affected Packages:
ncurses
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update ncurses to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.aarch64
i686:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.i686
noarch:
ncurses-base-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.noarch
ncurses-term-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.noarch
src:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.src
x86_64:
ncurses-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-compat-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-c++-libs-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-devel-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-static-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64
ncurses-debuginfo-6.0-8.20170212.amzn2.1.5.x86_64