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ALSA-2023:5249

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux – Published: 2023-09-19 00:00 – Updated: 2023-09-21 16:17 – Source website

Summary

Moderate: ncurses security update

Details

The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.

Security Fix(es):

ncurses: Local users can trigger security-relevant memory corruption via malformed data (CVE-2023-29491)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References

URL

Type

	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5249	ADVISORY
	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-29491	REPORT
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2191704	REPORT
	https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2023-5249.html	ADVISORY

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  "modified": "2023-09-21T16:17:16Z",
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CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-04-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:14

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.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-27 14:44 UTC

CWE

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

12 references

URL	Tags
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/…
http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git%3Ba…
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/0…	mailing-list
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/0…	mailing-list
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2023051…
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213843
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213844
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT213845
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…

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CVE-2023-29491 (GCVE-0-2023-29491)

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