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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | ncurses | 2023-07-05 21:44 | ALAS-2023-1778 |
Amazon Linux 2 - Core | ncurses | 2023-06-21 19:11 | ALAS2-2023-2096 |
Amazon Linux 2023 | ncurses | 2023-06-21 19:10 | ALAS2023-2023-220 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |