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2 vulnerabilities found for ncurses by GNU
CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2023-04-14 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 18:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-14 00:00
Modified
2025-11-04 18:14
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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