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CVE-2023-29491

Public on 2023-04-14
Modified on 2024-01-31
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.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
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

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
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